Tom Hanks

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Tom Hanks health: Star ignored diabetes warning signs for '20-years ... (Daily Express)

TOM HANKS is used to playing the hero in films. But in his latest, Elvis, the biopic following the rise and fall of Elvis Presley, Hanks takes on the ...

Due to the nature of how type 2 diabetes develops, individuals are encouraged to stick to a healthy diet and keep active in order to best manage the condition. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of the condition and occurs when the level of sugar in the blood becomes too high. Hanks cited not only his yo-yo dieting in order to lose drastic amounts of weight for film roles, but also living on an unhealthy routine of junk food and very little exercise as the main causes of his type 2 diabetes. You've got type 2 diabetes, young man,'” Hanks recalled before going on to call himself an “idiot” for not doing something to prevent the condition. However, for Hanks, unlike many other diabetes sufferers, doctors told him that if he could hit a “target weight” his illness would disappear. TOM HANKS is used to playing the hero in films.

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Why Tom Hanks Felt Like "A Total Idiot" After Being Diagnosed with ... (Best Life)

Two-time Academy Award winner and Hollywood darling Tom Hanks can seemingly do no wrong—unless, that is, you ask the actor himself. In a surprisingly candid ...

Though managing weight is just one facet of diabetes management, for Hanks, it's big a step in the right direction. That can be anything from a treadmill or a walk or a hike with a dog, but it has to be one hour every single day," he told Phoebe Robinson on the podcast Sooo Many White Guys in 2018. "My doctor says if I can hit a target weight, I will not have type 2 diabetes anymore," Hanks told Letterman in 2013. However, the Splash star was skeptical that he could make significant enough changes to reverse his illness at the time. "I'm part of the lazy American generation that has blindly kept dancing through the party and now finds ourselves with a malady," the actor told Radio Times. "I was heavy. Up until then, the Sleepless in Seattle star had made only modest attempts to slow the progression of his pre-diabetes through his diet.

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