I'm going to make people happy. I'm going to make them forget about their cancer. I'm going to make them forget about their diabetes.

- Dick Dale

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

- Elaine Stritch

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

- Elizabeth Holmes

We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a variety of diseases that are becoming very common, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers.

- Elizabeth Blackburn

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

- Dale Evans

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

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

Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.

- Dean Ornish

Rarely, Type 2 diabetes develops without any readily identifiable predisposing factor. But in the great majority of cases, it is brought on by lifestyle activities, including, and clearly most importantly, dietary choices.

- David Perlmutter

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.

- Dan Lipinski

I'm at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of the measures, started being a little high when I was drinking a ton of that coconut water.

- Anne Wojcicki

Every day I am part of my local town community, part of Rio Mesa High School Alumni, part of the racing world, part of the diabetes community worldwide.

- Charlie Kimball

I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest.

- Caroline Rhea

I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty.

- Clayton Christensen

More than half of pregnant women in the U.S. are obese, which leads to complications like hypertension, gestational diabetes and high blood pressure.

- Christy Turlington

My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.

- Bobby Clarke

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.

- Bobby Clarke

The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

- Barry Manilow

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

They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market.

- Anne Campbell