Article: Family seeks cure for diabetes - one pumpkin at a time

Geneva residents Paul and Mary Zellman and sons Jim and Joe pose with U.S. Sen. Barack Obama. Jim, 8, has become an advocate for diabetes research.

GENEVA - A couple of years ago, when little Jim Zellman was only 6 years old, he began showing some odd symptoms: mood swings, extreme thirst and hunger - and he even began losing weight. "As a parent, we don't see what is really happening to them," said his mother Mary. "One day I looked at him and noticed he was much thinner."

After a trip to the doctor, she and husband Paul learned their son had Type 1 diabetes and he would have to take insulin for the rest of his life. That meant testing his blood eight times a day and injecting insulin into ...