Jamie Oliver
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"Fight the staggering rise of type-2 diabetes by simply learning to cook healthy fresh food - it's fun, and it could save your life!"
Type 2 Diabetes quotes
Type 2 Diabetes
13 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Elizabeth Holmes
Businesswoman
"With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early they can take steps to avert getting sick."
Anthony Bourdain
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've got Type 2 Diabetes... It's in bad taste if nothing else."
Tom Hanks
Actor, Producer
"I have high blood sugars, and Type 2 diabetes is not going to kill me. But I just have to eat right, and exercise, and lose weight, and watch what I eat, and I will be fine for the rest of my life."
Tom Hanks
Actor, Producer
"My doctor said, 'If you can weigh what you weighed in high school, you'll essentially be healthy and not have Type 2 diabetes.' Well, I'm gonna have Type 2 diabetes, because there is no way I can weigh as much as I did in high school."
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"When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not eating right, and I was not getting enough exercise. But by the nature of my diet and that lifestyle - boom! The end result was high blood sugars that reach the levels where it becomes Type 2 diabetes. I share that with a gajillion other people."
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