Amanda de Cadenet Quotes

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

At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.

I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.

I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his patient history I noticed I had a lot of similar symptoms. I mentioned it to the doctor, and he ran blood work and finally an ultrasound of my thyroid.

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?

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.

I have Graves' disease and hyperthyroid.

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

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

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

The biggest issue by far is that carbohydrates are absolutely at the cornerstone of all of our major degenerative conditions.

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.

I have late-stage Lyme disease. I was misdiagnosed for many, many years and told I had lupus, MS, Crohn's disease, even degenerative arthritis. And finally in 2010, I got the correct diagnosis, because on the last Le Tigre tour, I was having several seizures a day and at times not being able to brush my own teeth.

I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon.

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.

Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva.

Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.

I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy.

In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.

If an autoimmune disease can create symptoms that look exactly like schizophrenia, that raises the question, what is schizophrenia? And are there forms of schizophrenia that are caused by other types of autoimmune disease?