Diabetes Quotes

• Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.

  Dale Evans

  Grateful, Be Grateful, Life Is

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• Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Cancer, Alzheimer's, Cells

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• You dont have to let your life be destroyed by diabetes. You can reclaim your life.

  Della Reese

  Life Is, Destroyed

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• I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.

  Paula Deen

  Positive, Way, Determined

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• I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.

  Halle Berry

  Exercise, Work Out, Mouths

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

  Bryan Adams

  Later In Life, Life Is Hard, Trying

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

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Kids, Four, Happens

  "Skinny Fat People: Why Being Skinny Doesn’t Protect Us Against Diabetes and Death" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2012.

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• Recent studies have revealed that children 8-10 years old are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure at an alarming rate

  Lee Haney

  Children, Blood, Years

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• 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.

  Elijah Cummings

  Children, Years, Childhood

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• I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes

  Jake LaMotta

  Boxing, Rays, Lucky

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• I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

  Mary Tyler Moore

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• My diabetes is such a central part of my life... it did teach me discipline... it also taught me about moderation... I've trained myself to be super-vigilant... because I feel better when I am in control.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Feel Better, Discipline, Taught

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• Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

  Xavier Becerra

  White, Community, African American

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• With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer.

  Lee Haney

  Cheer, Cancer, Heart

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• Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

  Thomas Willis

  Melancholy

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• In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

  Ike Skelton

  Cancer, Heart, Alzheimer's

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• Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.

  Nathan Deal

  Cells, Blood, Adults

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• When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.

  Temple Grandin

  Blood, Autism, Drug

  Interview With Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com.

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• As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

  Xavier Becerra

  Two, Adults, Latino

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• Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

  John Ratzenberger

  Children, Kids, My Family

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• Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever.

  Mary Ann Mobley

  Stress, Heart, Problem

  "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.

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• I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

  Dana Hill

  Hurt, Teenage, Years

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• I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.

  John Ratzenberger

  Past, Years, Research

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• There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

  Paula Deen

  Past, Four, Months

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• My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

  Danica Patrick

  Cancer, Red Flags, People

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