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Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.

There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes.

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

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.

I am diabetic.

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

I have two cousins with juvenile diabetes. They both contracted the disease before the age of 5, and it was so heartbreaking watching them go through daily blood tests and injections. It is such a difficult disease to live with and requires constant attention; a tough thing to explain to a child.

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

I think I can wipe out diabetes.

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.