Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.
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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.
Diabetes is all about insulin levels and sugar levels and what you put in your body.
There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes.
Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.
Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.
In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.
I've become a representative of the American Diabetes Association, and then I just became national spokesman for the American Heart Association for a campaign called The Heart of Diabetes, which brings the awareness of cardio-vascular disease to diabetics.
Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.
We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
I've got one of the best health care teams out there as far as diabetes management.
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