I was reading to my son last night. We read every night, since he was about 3 months old. James has a book of fairy tales that he particularly favors. Last night he chose it and the story "Goldilocks and the 3 Bears". A nice adaptation of it can be found here.

As I'm sure you all recall, Mama Bear makes porridge for breakfast, but it is too hot to eat, so the Bear family goes out for a walk. Goldilocks, who is wandering about the forest alone, comes upon their cottage and walks right in. Papa Bear's porridge is too hot for her, Mama Bear's porridge is too sweet, but Baby Bear's porridge is just right so she eats it up.

After breaking Baby Bear's chair, Goldilocks suddenly has to take a nap. What - it's first thing in the morning and this young child needs a nap? She seems healthy enough, she should have endless energy at that age (she looks about 5 or 6 in my book).

And then it occurred to me - the PORRIDGE! Porridge can be made of many things, but it's generally a grain of some type. Oats being most common, so why they don't call it oatmeal is beyond me.

Therefore, Goldilocks has high sugar from the 100% carbohydrate meal on an empty stomach!

And THEN it occurred to me - Diabetes is taking over my mind! If I can read high sugar symptoms into a scores-old fairy tale (first published in 1837), I must have diabetes on the brain!