Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!
Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.
Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
I drink coffee in the morning and a few cups throughout the day. Among coffee's health benefits are lower risk of Parkinson's, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and dementia.
Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.
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.
Diabetes is all about insulin levels and sugar levels and what you put in your body.
With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.
When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.
When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.
You've messed with the wrong god if you get keys to willy wonka chocolate factory and diabetes the same day..
Obesity puts our children at risk of developing serious diseases - such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression. It keeps our children from performing their best at school.
I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this.
I should have titled it "Diet Like Your Life Depended On It!" because it's about so much more than just beating Diabetes.
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.
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.
People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day.
