quotable quotes - January 2012
"The obesity epidemic is a societal challenge on par with climate change in how far-reaching, devastating, and complex it is."
- Dr. Paul Zimmett (Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia) at the International Diabetes Federation’s 21st World Congress, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 4-8, 2011.
"If costs don’t play an undue role, a combination of a long acting insulin and a short acting GLP-1 will be the most potent regimen to treat difficult patients with type 2 diabetes in the future."
- Dr. Michael Nauck (Diabeteszentrum Bad Lauterberg, Harz, Germany) at the International Diabetes Federation’s 21st World Congress, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 4-8, 2011.
"Why are we overweight? We’re in an environment that encourages us to make bad choices."
- David Kirchhoff (CEO, Weight Watchers, New York, NY) at the 30th JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, San Francisco, CA, January 9-12, 2012.
"Sometimes I think GLP-1 agonists seem like a sledgehammer compared to the small hammer of DPP-4 inhibitors."
- Dr. Ian Blumer (University of Toronto, CA) at the International Diabetes Federation’s 21st World Congress, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 4-8, 2011.
"We drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty, and justice that we did not dig. We eat lavishly from banquet tables prepared by our ancestors. Will we be the first generation that does not nothing but consume? Or will we metabolize our blessings and let them burn a fire within us to continue the progress of our generation? We cannot be the first generation with children who are less educated, less healthy, and less productive. It’s time for us as individuals to say, with a chorus of conviction, ‘Not on my watch!’ I’m a prisoner of hope because I’ve seen what committed Americans can do in my city."
- Cory Booker (Mayor, Newark, NJ; Honorary Vice Chair, Partnership for a Healthier America) at the Partnership for a Healthier America - Building a Healthier Future Summit, Washington DC, November 29-30, 2011.
"We need to ask the question: why, 90 years after insulin was discovered, do children with type 1 diabetes die in Africa?"
- Ann Keeling (CEO, International Diabetes Federation) at the International Diabetes Federation’s 21st World Congress, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 4-8, 2011.
"No matter how much you torture this data, there is no way you’re going to move this into a positive finding."
- Dr. Peter Boyle (International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France) on the link between Lantus and cancer at the International Diabetes Federation’s 21st World Congress, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 4-8, 2011.
"Lack of glamour leads to complacency. Cancer has that fear factor, but diabetes doesn’t – and it should."
- Ann Keeling (CEO, International Diabetes Federation) at the International Diabetes Federation’s 21st World Congress, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 4-8, 2011.
"If diabetes were a six month disease, sulfonylureas would be the therapy of choice."
- Dr. Bernard Zinman (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada) at the International Diabetes Federation’s 21st World Congress, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 4-8, 2011.
"Getting children more active needs to start in preschool and childcare centers."
- Dr. Francine Kaufman (Chief Medical Officer, Medtronic Diabetes, Los Angeles, CA) at the International Diabetes Federation’s 21st World Congress, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 4-8, 2011.
"We may well be raising the most sedentary generation of kids in the history of this country."
- First Lady Michelle Obama at the Partnership for a Healthier America - Building a Healthier Future Summit, Washington DC, November 29-30, 2011.
