Dan Hill Quotes

My grandmother passed away from diabetes. And my father died from heart disease as a result of diabetes. They were in their early 60s.

My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.

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.

Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people and instantly know them. My grandmother and I had that. The first time my heart was broken was when my grandmother passed away. I was twenty-one.

Anna Deavere Smith's new one-woman show bills itself as being about health care, but the truth is that 'Let Me Down Easy' is mostly about the grimmer subject of death and dying.

When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one being diabetes. I became a diabetic at 17 and went on this road of kind of self-destruction, eating-wise, until I was 40.

My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.

If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.

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

Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a lot of factors together and gives you an overall picture of risk for what is now emerging as a lot of diseases that tend to occur together, such as diabetes and heart disease.

I finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy - and I had to deal with that reality or die.

When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers.

I guess I can be surprised I'm alive. I'm taking a little better care of myself than when I was a young person. My father died when he was 63. My mother made it to 74. My grandparents, God, they were dropping like flies.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.

In 1989, my father died after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. All four of his siblings followed him into the shadow lands of that fascinating, maddening affliction.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

They told me that I had a leaky valve, which is something that is certainly not life-threatening. It's common and it's something that had I not known about it, would I have lived? Sure. But it's something that I think is important to know, especially as I get older and given that I have heart disease in my family.

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

I realized not long ago that by the time I leave this Earth, no matter when it is I will have officially only spent approximately 14 years of my life where I did not have to deal with cancer.

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

I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'