Tom Hanks: I Have Type 2 Diabetes

[mickeymouseclubfan]

Last night, on the David Letterman Show, according to CBS News, Tom Hanks, who is 57 years old, revealed exclusively to Letterman that he was just diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes.

Tom was on the David Letterman Show promoting his new film Captain Phillips when he revealed the diagnosis.

"I went to the doctor and he said 'You know those high blood sugar numbers you've been dealing with since you were 36? Well, you've graduated. You've got type 2 diabetes, young man,'" said Hanks.

In addition to Captain Phillips, Tom will also be portraying Walt Disney in the upcoming Making of Mary Poppins biopic Saving Mr. Banks, opening nationwide on December 20.

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Proving the old adage that life is like a box of chocolates—eventually, you’re gonna get diabetes—Tom Hanks revealed to David Letterman this week that he’s been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, a problem which Hanks plans to live with as chummily as he does the rest of the human race. However, one thing will definitely change: You won’t be seeing Hanks gain or lose weight to play a role anymore. As he recently told The Guardian, all of the packing on of pounds for parts like his paunchy baseball manager in A League Of Their Own, or the dramatic loss of them for movies like Cast Away, “may have had something to do” with getting diabetes—a hypothesis that CBS News medical contributor Dr. Holly Phillips agrees with, saying that sort of thing makes it so “the equilibrium of the body is just completely off.”

And while Hanks admits he was already “genetically inclined” to get it, and that he wasn’t leading a totally healthy lifestyle even before he started the seesawing, the diagnosis means he’ll never again take an acting job where he has to gain or lose a significant amount of weight, so that’s that. You want Tom Hanks to live, right? Anyway, upon hearing the news, Robert Zemeckis sadly folded away his sequel screenplay Forrest Lump (Because He’s Full Of Chocolate Now).

[MrCleveland]

I hope Tom Hanks can fight his diabeties.

I know many people with diabeties from my grandmother (who's passed on 21 years ago this week) to my pastor.

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My diabetes was caused by my awful diet, admits Tom Hanks: Oscar-winning actor says he was a 'total idiot' for the way he ate when he was younger