Oscar
Winning
Hollywood
actor
Tom
Hanks
has
been
diagnosed
with
type
2
diabetes,
a
lifelong
condition,
which
occurs
when
the
body
does
not
produce
enough
insulin.
He
revealed
this
in
the
late
night
talk
show,
hosted
by
David
Letterman
on
Monday.
Tom
Hanks
said
that
he
had
been
battling
high
blood
sugar
for
some
time
now.
Speaking
about
his
sugar
level
in
his
blood
to
host
David
Letterman,
the
57-year-old
actor
said,
"I
went
to
the
doctors
and
they
said,
'You
know
those
high
blood
sugar
numbers
you've
been
living
with
since
you
were
36,
well
you've
graduated,
you've
got
Type
2
Diabetes
young
man."
Though
the
condition
can
be
controlled
through
an
effective
diet,
Hanks
chooses
to
do
otherwise.
"Well
it's
controllable
and
through
diet.
My
doctor
said,
'If
you
can
weigh
what
you
weighed
in
high
school,
you'll
essentially
be
completely
healthy
and
not
have
Type
2
diabetes.'
And
I
said,
'Well,
I'm
going
to
have
Type
2
diabetes
then'," he
added.
Tom
Hanks
then
went
on
to
joke,
"Something's
going
to
kill
us
all,
Dave."
During
his
career,
Tom
Hanks
has
reinvented
himself
time
and
again
and
has
won
two
Best
Actor
Oscars,
for
Philadelphia
and
Forrest
Gump.
In
almost
all
his
films,
the
plot
required
him
to
transform
his
body
in
order
to
play
his
role
authentically.
In
the
film
A
League
of
Their
Own,
(Released
in
the
year
1992)
Tom
Hanks
gained
30
pounds
to
play
a
baseball
coach.
He
later
lost
50
pounds
for
his
movie
Cast
Away
(Released
in
2000)
to
make
himself
believable
as
a
man
stuck
on
a
desert
island.
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