Charlie Kimball Quotes

I have family that are diabetic and I've seen the hell it's put them through and I've told myself, I'm not going down like that.

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

There's not one food that causes diabetes. What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

I grew up in a family that was aware of the consequences of diabetes.

Diabetes can be successfully prevented and managed by a healthy lifestyle. When not managed, it can lead to severe organ damage and death.

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.

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

I don't want to become a diabetic.

For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous.

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

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

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

Diabetes taught me discipline.

I am diabetic.

Diabetes is not curable. It's sustainable.

I'm diabetic.

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.

You don't want to always put a bunch of sugar in you. Because your sugar gets high, it gets stuck in your blood, it gets stuck in your system. It makes you tired. You have the ups and downs.

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

Diabetes is all about insulin levels and sugar levels and what you put in your body.

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.