Randy Jackson Quotes

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.

I have a terrible lifestyle. And I don't really see it changing. Maybe in 10 years I'll see it differently - I'll want to see my great-grandchildren and live forever. But right now, young Brittany is not setting things up for old Brittany. And young Brittany does not care.

Diabetes taught me discipline.

Don't eat sugar. It's stupid.

The metabolic disturbances are now part of my life.

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

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not eating right, and I was not getting enough exercise. But by the nature of my diet and that lifestyle - boom! The end result was high blood sugars that reach the levels where it becomes Type 2 diabetes. I share that with a gajillion other people.

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.

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.

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

I've always enjoyed poor health.

Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?

Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

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

I've been irresponsible many, many, many times and that has resulted in my being fat.

I don't want to become a diabetic.

Diabetes and obesity together are the worst disease facing the country and its getting worse

Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.

The poor lifestyle I had been leading made my body susceptible to diseases. Had it not been cancer, some other malady would have struck me.

I'm an authentic person: I can talk about diabetes and how it affects you because I'm actually diabetic, and I know how much help a person needs, whether it's support physically or just understanding and being conscious of what diabetes really is.

My life is so much better with lupus because I know that stress and too much junk food will literally put me in hospital.

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.