Tedros Adhanom Quotes

I've got one of the best health care teams out there as far as diabetes management.

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

I grew up in a family that was aware of the consequences of diabetes.

Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.

I need insulin to stay alive. It's just therapy to keep going. What I can do is make sure that I keep my blood sugar down to a reasonable level. I can exercise, and I can eat properly. And insulin plays a very big part in that.

I don't want to become a diabetic.

I have family that are diabetic and I've seen the hell it's put them through and I've told myself, I'm not going down like that.

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.

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.

Diabetes is not curable. It's sustainable.

Issues like obesity do, as you well know, have a knock-on effect to diabetes. So we all are better off if we invest early in prevention.

If you can contribute 45 minutes - one hour a day a week exercising, you're going to be a healthy person. You can cut down on diabetes and all of these manmade problems we have. I do embrace the fact that I can maybe be a voice for people to realize that it's not as hard that people think. I'm a pretty passionate person.

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

I have learnt a lot about my body since my heart attack. I don't drink as much now as before.

According to the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease project, the leading risk factors for ill health and premature death are linked to lifestyle, what we eat and drink and how much we exercise. Disease prevention does not occur in the hospital. We need the whole of society to be involved.

My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication.

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.

I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.

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

I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.

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.