Quotes About Diabetes

#1. I am excited to share my archive pictures and footage. I'll also share announcements about current events and success stories from the Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation to help fight diabetes and child obesity.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#2. Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Xavier Becerra

#3. In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

Ike Skelton

#4. As obesity creeps into preschools, and hypertension and type II diabetes become pediatric problems for the very first time, the case for starting preventive health care in the cradle has become too compelling to keep ignoring.

Heidi Murkoff

#5. Researchers use alloxan in lab rats to induce diabetes. That's right - it's used to produce diabetes. This is bad news if you eat anything white or enriched.

Timothy Ferriss

#6. I think Gummy Bears should be the universal symbol for peace, because peace leads to prosperity, prosperity leads to decadence, and decadence leads to diabetes.

Jarod Kintz

#7. Obesity puts our children at risk of developing serious diseases - such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression. It keeps our children from performing their best at school.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#8. A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

C. D. Broad

#9. I'm thinking of people in rural Japan and China, where McDonald's hasn't yet arrived. These are the thinnest, healthiest, longest-lived people with the least risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Neal Barnard

#10. People have to know that if they've wanted to lose weight, if they've wanted to get their diabetes better and get their cholesterol down, here is how it works. Beyond that point, you can't force people into changes, you have to guide them.

Neal Barnard

#11. On the plane was a Time magazine and there was a 30 page article on diabetes, and I read every page. By the time that plane landed, I had diabetes.

Lewis Black

#12. With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

Elizabeth Holmes

#13. Accept that diabetes care is up to you. You are the one who decides what to eat, how much to exercise, and when to check your blood glucose. Accept this for what it is - control. You are in control.

American Diabetes Association

#14. I have high blood sugars, and Type 2 diabetes is not going to kill me. But I just have to eat right, and exercise, and lose weight, and watch what I eat, and I will be fine for the rest of my life.

Tom Hanks

#15. Cardiovascular disease is a major complication of diabetes.

Antonio Gotto

#16. A plant-based diet is more likely to produce good health and to reduce sharply the risk of heart problems, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, gallstones, and kidney disease.

T. Colin Campbell

#17. One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?

Mark Hyman

#18. I had panels - roundtables in the district - and the stories that were told are really difficult to accept. People who have diabetes who can't get insurance because of a preexisting condition; others who were laid off and the have no place to turn.

Sander Levin

#19. Diabetes sucked. It was a blindfold juggling act between insulin, diet and exercise, and it ended with your last breath. Irritated

Toni Anderson

#20. The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

David Suzuki

#21. I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up.

Ron Santo

#22. We can arrange better expectations and better circumstances beginning with the fact that we need not be who we are now; we can be better.

Charles C. Harpe

#23. When I got my success, I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard. I've become more moderate since, because African-Americans are prone to diabetes.

Jill Scott

#24. I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

Mary Tyler Moore

#25. Drinking diluted apple cider everyday will make you feel energetic and halt midday sugar cravings. It primarily keeps the digestion in good shape. It also maintains the right balance of insulin and hormonal levels. People with diabetes can benefit from a daily intake of diluted apple cider vinegar.

Steven Cumberland

#26. I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes.

Jake LaMotta

#27. I don't sugarcoat it you'd die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it

Kendrick Lamar

#28. Eighty-five percent of all diabetes sufferers are overweight or obese.

H. Leighton Steward

#29. Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!

Sherri Shepherd

#30. As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#31. Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

Thomas Willis

#32. Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that can significantly alter the maternal and in utero environment, leading to complications. Optimizing

T. Murphy Goodwin

#33. I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest.

Caroline Rhea

#34. study after study also directly links the intake of excess sugar to an increased risk for cancer, diabetes, gastrointestinal problems, eye diseases, osteoporosis, coronary heart disease, and other inflammatory diseases.

Colette Heimowitz

#35. I believe very strongly - and I never brought this up as a player - but I put up, I feel, Hall of Fame numbers with diabetes. If I didn't have diabetes - nobody realizes that, when I was diagnosed at 18, even the doctors didn't know what to do about diabetes.

Ron Santo

#36. In diabetes the thirst is greater for the fluid dries the body ... For the thirst there is need of a powerful remedy, for in kind it is the greatest of all sufferings, and when a fluid is drunk, it stimulates the discharge of urine.

Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

#37. There is one fat that diabetics can eat without fear. That fat is coconut oil. Not only does it not contribute to diabetes but it helps regulate blood sugar, thus lessening the effects of the disease

Bruce Fife

#38. People don't get cancer or diabetes or have a baby with Down syndrome as any kind of punishment. People who believe that are very 'limited', which is polite way to say they're stupid.

Nancy Freund

#39. Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses, not to mention the impact on quality of life when you start to develop adult-onset diabetes as a child, or all these other diet-related illnesses.

Anna Lappe

#40. Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

Mark Hyman

#41. I'm going to make people happy. I'm going to make them forget about their cancer. I'm going to make them forget about their diabetes.

Dick Dale

#42. Diabetes is an all-too-personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or 10 years from now - a time bomb affecting millions like me and the children here today.

Mary Tyler Moore

#43. It is not logical that millions of modern adults and children around the world are suddenly becoming insulin resistant

John M. Poothullil

#44. [T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift.

Sonia Sotomayor

#45. When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

Janet Jackson

#46. Every day I am part of my local town community, part of Rio Mesa High School Alumni, part of the racing world, part of the diabetes community worldwide.

Charlie Kimball

#47. We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a variety of diseases that are becoming very common, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#48. Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.

Izabel Goulart

#49. Rarely, Type 2 diabetes develops without any readily identifiable predisposing factor. But in the great majority of cases, it is brought on by lifestyle activities, including, and clearly most importantly, dietary choices.

David Perlmutter

#50. Fight the staggering rise of type-2 diabetes by simply learning to cook healthy fresh food - it's fun, and it could save your life!

Jamie Oliver

#51. An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

Sonia Sotomayor

#52. Homeopathy has been of tremendous value in reversing diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, bronchial asthma, epilepsy, skin eruptions, allergic conditions, mental or emotional disorders, especially if applied at the onset of the disease.

George Vithoulkas

#53. In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Craig Ferguson

#54. I finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy - and I had to deal with that reality or die.

Stephen Furst

#55. Many physical illnesses are associated with depression and anxiety, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, stroke, kidney disease, lung disease, dementia and cancer.

Liz Miller

#56. I've got one of the best health care teams out there as far as diabetes management.

Charlie Kimball

#57. Abundant data support the importance of biodiversity in health, and its loss causes various inflammatory conditions, including asthma, allergic and inflammatory bowel diseases, type 1 diabetes, liver disease, obesity, and much more.

Gerard E. Mullin

#58. I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes

Jake LaMotta

#59. The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?

Joel Fuhrman

#60. I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'

Randy Jackson

#61. Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

Richard Simmons

#62. I'm at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of the measures, started being a little high when I was drinking a ton of that coconut water.

Anne Wojcicki

#63. My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.

Abby Wambach

#64. Recent studies have revealed that children 8-10 years old are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure at an alarming rate.

Lee Haney

#65. When I was young, my parents were these titanic, infallible figures. But Mum's illness and Dad's battles with diabetes and heart attacks had a ripple effect on me - reminding me of my own mortality and that these illnesses are genetic.

Sam Worthington

#66. These findings - the contents of Part II of this book - show that heart disease, diabetes and obesity can be reversed by a healthy diet.

T. Colin Campbell

#67. I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association - my older sister passed away from diabetes - and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting.

Tamara Tunie

#68. The obvious implication is that obesity and Type 2 diabetes are two sides of the same physiological coin, two consequences, occasionally concurrent, of the same underlying defects - hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance.

Gary Taubes

#69. Toni donates 15% of her royalties from EDGE OF SURVIVAL to diabetes research - to find out why, read the book!

Toni Anderson

#70. The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

George Jean Nathan

#71. I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.

Paula Deen

#72. A life without sweets is not much worth living.

Pawan Mishra

#73. I think I can wipe out diabetes.

Robert Atkins

#74. Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Bryan Adams

#75. I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

Ray Kroc

#76. I was 13 when I developed the classic symptoms of a person who gets diabetes: a lot of weight loss, a tremendous thirst, and blurry eyesight. My mom took me to the hospital, and the doctors took some blood tests. My blood sugar was so high that they knew right away.

Bobby Clarke

#77. [The tests agreed] that I was at higher risk than the average person for Type 2 diabetes, which is what my lab works on. In fact, some of the things they were testing for were variants that we had discovered.

Francis Collins

#78. I really do believe that America has this weight problem - obesity issues - and we have all these diseases that we get - heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases - that are primarily lifestyle diseases.

John Mackey

#79. Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.

Charlie Kimball

#80. The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Ellen Gustafson

#81. Overeating and sedentary behavior could not explain the prevalence of obesity and diabetes in modern societies,

Gary Taubes

#82. Unhealthy eating habits cause major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, and can also lead to food insecurity, disrupted eating patterns, and low self-esteem.

Matt Cartwright

#83. There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on anything but human activity. They are like those who, having been diagnosed with diabetes, eat donuts for breakfast. There's not much to do about them.

Michael Specter

#84. Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.

Sam Kean

#85. Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.

Dale Evans

#86. We're getting closer. I believe a 5-year-old with diabetes will live long enough to be cured.

Ron Santo

#87. Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

Robert Lanza

#88. I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

Angie Stone

#89. Archives of Internal Medicine revealed that postmenopausal women who were put on statin drugs to lower their cholesterol had a nearly 48 percent increased risk of developing diabetes compared to those who weren't given the drug.

David Perlmutter

#90. I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.

John Lasseter

#91. Cotton candy. Like eating a cloud of diabetes.

Dana Gould

#92. You dont have to let your life be destroyed by diabetes. You can reclaim your life.

Della Reese

#93. probably end up reduce your risk of diabetes because blood sugar fluctuations are its main cause.

Mary Anderson

#94. Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

John Ratzenberger

#95. It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes.

Sharyn McCrumb

#96. As reported in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2013, even slight elevations of blood sugar that are far below the diabetes range have been shown to significantly increase the risk for the development of untreatable dementia.7

David Perlmutter

#97. People take ownership of sickness and disease by saying things like MY high blood pressure MY diabetes, MY heart disease, MY depression, MY! MY! MY! Don't own it because it doesn't belong to you!

Stella Payton

#98. For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?

Eric Topol

#99. Eat Chew Live' is not like other diet or weight loss books. There are no programs to follow, menus to cook, or products to buy, this book is about respecting how your body works.

John M. Poothullil

#100. Overcoming the obstacle of my diabetes diagnosis was something that forced me tackle the challenge head-on and, with an amazing support system, eventually come out stronger.

Charlie Kimball