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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

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.

Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.

I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.

I'm actually a Type 1 diabetic, so growing up, I had to eat pretty healthy.

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.

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

You eat as many vegetables as you can, and try to cut your carbs and your sugar. That's going to make the job of being a diabetic so much easier.

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?