forrest gump actor tom hanks has come a long way from eating unhealthy food like cheeseburgers to ensuring he eats a healthy diet so that he can manage his diabetes the 65yearold actor first opened up about his type 2 diabetes diagnosis on the late show with david letterman in 2013 according to hanks the doctor suggested he should get down to a similar weight as he was as a teenager to rid of the diseaseread alsois it safe to take sleeping pills docs weigh in the pros and consinsomnia is a very common disorder where incidence varies between 1030 of the population due to high levels of stress experienced in the population insomnia is on the risemenstrual hygiene day 2022 normalizing menstruation in indiaaround 23 million girls in india drop out of school every year due to a lack of menstrual hygiene management mhm facilities which include access to sanitary napkins awareness of menstruation and access to clean toilets with running water and disposal facilitieshanks replied well im going to have type 2 diabetes then because there is no way i can weigh what i weighed in high school however with time the star has made several life adjustments over the yearsin a 2018 podcast the cast away star opened up about how he deals with the condition in his everyday routine and explained what caused it in the first place he said part of it is because of my genes and part of it is because of the horrible lifestyle that i led of eating anything so now the first thing that i do is i try to take care of thatapart from keeping a check on his diet he ensures to get some exercise and mobility everyday i try to get every single day one hour of activity 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 dayin a past interview with the radio times hanks admitted he had been a total idiot about his weight and relationship with food im part of the lazy american generation that has blindly kept dancing through the party and now finds ourselves with a malady i was heavy youve seen me in movies you know what i looked like i was a total idiot i thought i could avoid it by removing the buns from my cheeseburgersnow that he watches his diet he added that sometimes he has a few slip ups but he makes sure to get back to workout and a disciplined dieti watch what i eat to a point of boredom hanks said every now and again i cheat to the point of selfloathing thats it so after that have some coffee read the paper get up get the workout out of the way take a showertips to prevent diabetesif youve received a diagnosis of prediabetes healthy lifestyle changes may slow or stop the progression to diabetes a healthy lifestyle