Thomas Willis Quotes

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

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

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 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.

Diabetes mellitus is due to a deficiency of the internal secretion of the pancreas. The main principle of treatment is, therefore, to correct this deficiency.

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.

The production and consumption of glucose, and hence, the blood sugar level, are controlled by a functional endocrine equilibrium.

I am diabetic.

I'm diabetic.

My grandmother and father both had diabetes.

There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes.

I'm actually a Type 1 diabetic, so growing up, I had to eat pretty healthy.

I was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus Type 1.

I like a lot of things but I am diabetic so I have to be careful with sugars.

Insulin is a crisis medication.

There's a YouTube video of these two kittens that just fall over and pass out. My blood sugar's crazy, so I would pass out sometimes, like the fainting kittens.

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.

No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky.

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars.

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.

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

Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.

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.