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diabetes
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  • You're going to give me diabetes.†   (source)
  • "I'd love to," Y.T. says, "but my diabetes is acting up real bad."†   (source)
  • Obesity has been linked to heart disease, colon cancer, stomach cancer, breast cancer, diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure, infertility, and strokes.†   (source)
  • For one thing, she was overweight and suffered from a form of diabetes.†   (source)
  • Answering the page, he'd greet the hospital operator—whichever of the dozen or so came on line—and quickly ask about her blood pressure, or her husband's heart condition, or her mother's diabetes.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the father who disowned Ryan O'Neal comes down with diabetes, cirrhosis of the liver, and Meniere's disease and dies a lonely, miserable death.†   (source)
  • Janet Isinghoff was thirty-three years old, primigravid, with a family history of diabetes.†   (source)
  • I need to be treated for diabetes.†   (source)
  • Ruth has diabetes, and Peter has prostate trouble.†   (source)
  • He hated fat people, thought they were weak and had no discipline, people who complained about their blood pressure and diabetes and heart problems and whined about the cost of medicine, but couldn't summon the strength to put the fork down.†   (source)
  • Not long ago a nurse by the name of Georgia Sadler began a campaign to increase knowledge and awareness of diabetes and breast cancer in the black community of San Diego.†   (source)
  • Cigarettes were killing the "real" smokers, though, and the long twice-daily pill line included not just the people getting psych meds but also women who desperately needed their heart or diabetes medication to stay standing.†   (source)
  • They are trying to cure themselves of arthritis, diabetes, blindness and cancer.†   (source)
  • Sadly, I discovered that my niang had developed diabetes and a weak heart condition.†   (source)
  • You must have sugar diabetes.†   (source)
  • "Daddy's sick" soon yielded to "Daddy's gone," as Duke succumbed to diabetes at the age of thirty-five.†   (source)
  • Then about the pancreas, diabetes ….†   (source)
  • Her mother was battling diabetes and did not need another load of sugar, if she in fact wanted to sample the cake.†   (source)
  • She had a form of juvenile arthritis, brought on by diabetes, that made her weak and kept her in pain most of her life.†   (source)
  • "Diabetes," Smithson said.†   (source)
  • You see, dear boy, I have diabetes … my gray hair is painfully thin.†   (source)
  • Clinton had succeeded Gullberg and was the chief of the Section until 2002, when diabetes and coronary artery disease had forced him into retirement.†   (source)
  • The one with diabetes?†   (source)
  • Her father was confined to a wheelchair since his foot was amputated in August, a complication of diabetes.†   (source)
  • Most of them were hot tempered—though they blamed diabetes for this whenever possible.†   (source)
  • All the diabetics aren't dying the way they used to, they're living long enough so that they're passing the diabetes on to their children.†   (source)
  • She starts to suspect her cat has diabetes.†   (source)
  • Their ailments ranged from infected battle wounds to whooping cough, diabetes, and sinusitis.†   (source)
  • Lib's mother had diabetes.†   (source)
  • I like it, but I've got diabetes.†   (source)
  • Maybe they told him the truth—that he had diabetes—but if so he kept their terrible diagnosis a secret.†   (source)
  • Diabetes can mean blindness, amputation, and early death.†   (source)
  • I already signed up for a diabetes class and a stroke class to get more understanding about that.†   (source)
  • But I did manage to make Sarawa understand I suffered from diabetes and required water at all times.†   (source)
  • Then, to my astonishment, he produced some insulin for the diabetes I didn't have.†   (source)
  • Diabetes has never been easy to live with.†   (source)
  • Do you have diabetes (which has a powerful association with heart disease)?†   (source)
  • June When I was pregnant with Claire, I was told that I had gestational diabetes.†   (source)
  • "You don't get sugar diabetes from not eating sugar.†   (source)
  • The cortisone they took led to cataracts, diabetes, hip fractures, and other side effects.†   (source)
  • Sadly, my husband passed away several years ago after suffering from diabetes.†   (source)
  • If she were truly suffering from diabetes, why would she not follow the doctor's orders?†   (source)
  • Why doesn't this include whether the patient has diabetes?†   (source)
  • He was struggling with his diabetes, and friends had noticed that he was unusually thin that winter.†   (source)
  • That was why his diabetes bothered him so: he felt he didn't deserve it.†   (source)
  • My mother didn't know about the diabetes; all she knew was that drinking acted like poison on him.†   (source)
  • Since Lavinia McGovern suffered from diabetes, insulin had kept her alive.†   (source)
  • See, Bubeh was old and she had diabetes and couldn't control me, and it wasn't like my aunts were calling to check on me or anything like that.†   (source)
  • His diabetes damaged his circulatory system and fostered a foot infection that bedeviled him for the rest of his life.†   (source)
  • Heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, and breast cancer, the principal "diseases of affluence," have been linked to diets low in fiber and high in animal fats.†   (source)
  • I got anxiety, depression, degenerating kneecaps, bursitis, bulged discs in my back, diabetes, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, cholesterol.†   (source)
  • America's low-income communities now boast the highest proportion of fast food restaurants — as well as the highest obesity rates and the highest rates of diabetes.†   (source)
  • Bubeh was getting very suspicious now, but she was very old then, she slept a lot, you know, and she had diabetes, and I got over on her the way my grandkids get over on me now.†   (source)
  • As he and his family traveled through Heidelberg, he slipped into a coma, the result apparently of a combined assault of diabetes, colitis, and his foot infection, all worsened by a bout of food poisoning.†   (source)
  • He'd said many times that he wanted to see his wife's cells before he died, but he was eighty-five, in and out of the hospital with heart and blood pressure problems, and he'd just lost a leg to diabetes.†   (source)
  • In 2005, members of the Native American Havasupai Tribe sued Arizona State University after scientists took tissue samples the tribe donated for diabetes research and used them without consent to study schizophrenia and inbreeding.†   (source)
  • Something about complications from diabetes, and whenever he saw the woman eating a bowl of soup, he thought about her husband upstairs.†   (source)
  • She had diabetes and, as a lifelong smoker, the beginnings of emphysema, though again, neither of these conditions seemed life-threatening at present, and neither adequately explained what had happened.†   (source)
  • Her mom suffered from diabetes, and the loan payments on the property ate up almost every dollar the orchard brought in.†   (source)
  • She set up an evaluation program to find out what was working and to see how successful she was in changing attitudes and getting women to have mammograms and diabetes tests, and what she found out was that her program worked.†   (source)
  • Complications of diabetes and a stroke.†   (source)
  • It was only in the afternoons when, dressed in sarong and vest, he went out for walks over his property (part of a mysterious treatment for diabetes), that he seemed to become a real part of the landscape around him.†   (source)
  • Because of his age, sixty-two, and serious diabetes, it took the personal intervention of President Roosevelt to get the old warrior Howlin' Mad Smith out to battle.†   (source)
  • The family doesn't understand diabetes.†   (source)
  • If he played the balance of diabetes management and reducing wrong, he could faint in the saddle while moving at forty miles per hour.†   (source)
  • Alfonso Cortez (born/September 22, 1944) Nearly blind from diabetes, the following was dictated by Alfonso to Virginia Faz, one of Cesar's daughters.†   (source)
  • He has diabetes.†   (source)
  • A cop with diabetes.†   (source)
  • A few, like Enrique and Angel, could still play pretty well, but on the other end of the spectrum, Alfonso Cortez was slowly losing his eyesight from diabetes.†   (source)
  • This was a problem facing nearly every jockey, but with the onset of his diabetes, Woolf's problems were compounded.†   (source)
  • Diabetes?†   (source)
  • But most saw Woolf sink from the saddle, unconscious, his dieting and diabetes finally taking their toll.†   (source)
  • Insulin injections encouraged Woolf to gain weight, and to manage his diabetes he needed to consume regular, high-protein, low-carbohydrate meals—meats were recommended—which also added pounds.†   (source)
  • Buthis reducing, combined with the blunt-instrument character of diabetes treatment in the 1930s, made controlling his blood sugar extremely difficult.†   (source)
  • Despondent over Seabiscuit's loss in the Santa Anita Handicap and seizing the opportunity to eat as his diabetes dictated while his suspension was in effect, he had gorged himself on steaks and ballooned up to 128 pounds.†   (source)
  • Trial and error was the only method physicians had to figure dosage, additives had not been developed to improve the absorption of the hormone, and the proper diet for diabetes management was not yet fully understood.†   (source)
  • With diabetes, his drinking was lethal.†   (source)
  • Your mother does have diabetes.†   (source)
  • They had no curiosity about "white folks' things," while I wanted to know if the dogs being treated for diabetes were getting well; if the rats and mice in whom cancer had been induced showed any signs of responding to treatment.†   (source)
  • That is why diabetes borders on consumption.†   (source)
  • …Bois or at Saint-Cloud, he would rise from table and leave the house so abruptly—especially if it threatened to rain, and so to scatter the 'faithful' before their normal time—that on one occasion the Princesse des Laumes (at whose house dinner had been so late that Swann had left before the coffee came in, to join the Verdurins on the Island in the Bois) observed: "Really, if Swann were thirty years older, and had diabetes, there might be some excuse for his running away like that.†   (source)
  • I have had diabetes for years.†   (source)
  • About the famous guests—Dr. Rouncefield the Chicago surgeon, a diabetes specialist from Omaha, a Pittsburgh internist—stood massed the faculty members.†   (source)
  • Before she left she had babbled to Mrs. Westlake her dislike for Aunt Bessie, the fact that Kennicott's income was now more than five thousand a year, her view of the reason why Vida had married Raymie (which included some thoroughly insincere praise of Raymie's "kind heart"), her opinion of the library-board, just what Kennicott had said about Mrs. Carthal's diabetes, and what Kennicott thought of the several surgeons in the Cities.†   (source)
  • Clif was occasionally irritating; he hated open windows; he talked of dirty socks; he sang "Some die of Diabetes" when Martin was studying; and he was altogether unable to say anything directly.†   (source)
  • And on the 'practical' side, you gif me twenty years of a school that is precise and cautious, and we shall cure diabetes, maybe tuberculosis and cancer, and all these arthritis things that the carpenters shake their heads at them and call them 'rheumatism.'†   (source)
  • They've already lessened the terrors of meningitis and pneumonia, and yellow fever is on the verge of complete abolition through Noguchi's work, and I have no doubt their hospital, with its enormous resources and splendidly co-operating minds, will be the first to find something to alleviate diabetes.†   (source)
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