Joey Chestnut Quotes

It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars.

Yeah! I got type-two diabetes! I'm sure there's going to be some media scandal now, saying I got it because I gained and lost weight for movie parts or something - but I doubt that.

I don't have to take insulin because I have been able to make these changes and take this medication.

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.

So-called 'complex carbs' may actually represent a more significant threat to health than simple sugar in that they may not only raise blood sugar, but keep it elevated for a more prolonged period of time.

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

Diabetes is all about insulin levels and sugar levels and what you put in your body.

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.

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.

When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

I think that people's weight fluctuates. It happens. It happens to everybody.

Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

I am diabetic. So diet control is a pre-given for me.

A crash diet never works. You lose weight one day and add it the next.

Glutton things, those are things that are dangerous for me. My grandma and my aunt died of diabetes; I'm borderline diabetic.

If your body produces more blood glucose than the muscle needs, it gets converted into fat. So always choose low-GI carbs like green vegetables and low-GI rice like basmati.

Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

With the glucometer, I always know how much blood sugar I've got, so I can adjust my insulin or the food I eat.

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.

I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically.

At 9 years old I weighed about 10 lbs. less than what my weight is at 32. I needed to get help.

There's not one food that causes diabetes. What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

I am the world's worst diabetic.

Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.

I have an amazing metabolism. I'm sure that'll be gone one day. But I like to exercise, too, so I don't think I'll ever get really fat.