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Ben Vereen, recently honored with a lifetime achievement award from the American Diabetes Association for his work to raise awareness of the condition, talks about his life with type 2 diabetes. The Tony Award-winning actor has joined forces with Taking Control of Your Diabetes (TCOYD), a leading national not-for-profit diabetes education organization, to call on Americans to Start Taking Action Now for Diabetes (S.T.A.N.D.).

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