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.
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'm diabetic.
I have autoimmune disease, thyroid problems, and I've been diagnosed pre-diabetic.
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.
The production and consumption of glucose, and hence, the blood sugar level, are controlled by a functional endocrine equilibrium.
It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars.
My dad is a Type 1 diabetic. I grew up in a household where we were really conscious about cutting back on sugar because we had to for his health.
There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes.
Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
Diabetes is all about insulin levels and sugar levels and what you put in your body.
Diabetes and obesity together are the worst disease facing the country and its getting worse
I am diabetic.
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.
I was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus Type 1.
Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.
If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained.
I like a lot of things but I am diabetic so I have to be careful with sugars.
Production and consumption of carbohydrates is so well regulated that there is a constant blood sugar level; any accidental increase or fall in blood sugar is rapidly compensated.
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.
Diabetes is caused by melancholy.
Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
I'm actually a Type 1 diabetic, so growing up, I had to eat pretty healthy.
Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.
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.
