“Type 1 diabetes is very bad. Type 2 diabetes is controllable,” Hanks told Nerdist Thursday. “You’ve just got to lose weight and exercise a lot and changeSuper Slim Pomegranate Diet Pills
everything you eat and never ever ever ever ever have any fun whatsoever.”
Weight and inactivity are major risk factors for type 2 diabetes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hanks has gained and lost weight
for his many movie roles, appearing heavier in “Captain Phillips” than in “Cast Away” and “Philadelphia.”Bee Pollen Weight Loss Pills
“Sometimes I’m in pretty good shape, other times I’m not,” the actor admits in his Twitter biography. “Hey, you gotta live, you know?”
Now faced with type 2 diabetes, Hanks said “it turns out, I do want to live.”
“And it means I have to stay skinnier,” he told Nerdist.
who underwent heart bypass surgery in 2000, admitted that he, too, suffers from “the high blood sugar” and has had to go on a special diet.
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Tom Hanks says he has type 2 diabetes. (Image credit: Craig Barritt/Getty Images)
Type 2 diabetes is a chronic condition that affects the body’s ability to metabolize sugar. Unlike type 1 diabetes, which attacks the insulin-producing cells of the
pancreas, type 2 diabetes occurs when the body produces insufficient amounts of the hormone or becomes resistant to its effects.