Clayton Christensen Quotes

Diabetes is not curable. It's sustainable.

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

I don't have to take insulin because I have been able to make these changes and take this medication.

One of the common conditions on both sides of my families is diabetes.

I have some afflictions, like diabetes 2, but I take care. I sleep well.

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

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

I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.

You can live with diabetes. It's not the worst thing to have, but you have to manage yourself and have some self control.

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

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

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.

Because I don't produce insulin, I have to put insulin into my body, which means that I have a pen with a needle on it. I have it with me. You have to stick it in your thigh, or your arm - a lot of different spots you can put it.

Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

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.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

With the glucometer, I always know how much blood sugar I've got, so I can adjust my insulin or the food I eat.

It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was diabetic and could meet the same fate if I didn't take care of myself.

Quite frankly, I'm tired of taking insulin and pumping my stomach every three days and pricking my finger and drawing blood out of it every day - it's a tedious, meticulous, annoying disease that never goes away. And I want to get rid of it like everybody else does.

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.

The Go Red for Women campaign raises awareness of the risk of heart disease. I think a lot of people don't realize that heart disease is the number one killer of women. So what we're doing is encouraging women to tell five other women to learn more about heart disease and how they can prevent it.

Every little thing I've done as an adult and as a young adult, I've done diabetic.

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

My grandmother and father both had diabetes.