Takeru Kobayashi Quotes

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not.

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

I had a stroke in December of '99, and it affected my left side - my fingering side.

The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

I refer to the fact, acknowledged now by all professionals in the field, that alcoholism as such is not a legal problem—it is a health problem.

I was sick. I had a polyp on my throat. It would have been foolish for me to go out on the road with the problem I had.

My back isn't great.

I have kind of an iron stomach.

I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me.

It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

I don't want to become a diabetic.

I am diabetic.

All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.

Since 1975, violence has been recognized as a public health problem, in large part to former Surgeon Generals Dr. Koop and Dr. Satcher's pioneering efforts to make the health approach a national priority. Since then, we've seen that violence can be curbed - and stopped - if we treat it as we would any other epidemic health concern.

I've never had a personal experience with cancer.

I've had back problems basically my whole career.

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.

I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.

I used to have, and I still do have, really bad acid reflux. I had a surgical procedure done... that repaired a valve at the top of my stomach that had completely burned away.