Recently Huffington Post published a thought-provoking essay about the qualities of "normal" eaters. My sister & I, both T1D, found ourselves a little short of "normal". We wrote about it here: http://www.despitemypancreas.com/
(of course this essay was not directed at people w/ diabetes! It was more in relation to our dieting culture, but it was an interesting exercise to consider through the lens of T1D)
I don't think there is any such thing as a "normal" eater so I have never paid attention to articles like that. I'm sure they're not addressing people who have issues like D or eating disorders in that article but who knows. They don't really address what people are eating, from what you wrote anyway, so they could be eating 5 bags of candy because that was what they felt like at the time and that's ok??? lol