#diabetes

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

#diabetes #diagnosed #had #latino #million

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

#awareness #breast cancer #cancer #diabetes #fact

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal! ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#amount #diabetes #disease #fat #greater

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

#alzheimer #arthritis #burdens #cancer #chronic

As obesity creeps into preschools, and hypertension and type II diabetes become pediatric problems for the very first time, the case for starting preventive health care in the cradle has become too compelling to keep ignoring. ↗

— Heidi Murkoff

#care #case #compelling #cradle #creeps

It is important for Americans to recognize that, despite all of the fancy gimmicks and perceived power of modern medicine, the largest explosion of preventable, chronic diseases ever in the history of mankind has occurred as a direct result of modern medicine and scientific reductionism. Modern medicine is not an antidote for the incredible harms caused by the modern food industry, but it is an effective distraction. ↗

— Charles C. Harpe

#diabetes #healthcare-reform-in-the-us #heart-disease #manufactured-food #metabolic-syndrome

We can arrange better expectations and better circumstances beginning with the fact that we need not be who we are now; we can be better. ↗

— Charles C. Harpe

#diabetes #heart-disease #manufactured-food #naturvore #whole-foods

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

— Dale Evans

#because #diabetes #grateful #life #make

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess. ↗

— Maile Meloy

#family #genetics #short-story #spy-vs-spy #family

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