Stars Bring Hope

Over the weekend the stars came out for the 30th Anniversary Carousel of Hope Ball. An elegantly dressed Nicole Richie, a sophisticated looking Melanie B and three smartly dressed Jonas Brothers joined a whole host of celebrities (that your mum would have heard of) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel to help raise money for the Barbara Davis Centre for childhood diabetes - diabetes being an issue Nick Jonas holds particularly close to his heart. The Jonas Brothers even performed!

Nick Jonas Blogs

Nick Jonas blogged for Simple Wins as part of his collobaration with Bayer to fight juvenile diabetes.

He writes:
Posted October 1, 2008
Hello all-
Since my last blog, we performed at the VMAs, wrapped up our tour, filmed another video and rented out Dodgers Stadium for a little bit of fun. Speaking of Dodgers Stadium, it is also the home of the November 1st JDRF Walk where I will be with TEAM JONAS. Hope you had a chance to enter the W.I.N.S Sweepstakes, I can't wait to see who is going to win and represent the team. Bayer and I thought this would be a great way to raise awareness regarding diabetes and diabetes care. As you know this is an important time of the year for diabetes as we all work hard to raise awareness and money for more research to find the cure. What better way to kick off National Diabetes Month than to be out there supporting the cause.
Production of our new Disney TV Show began this week, it is a pretty hectic schedule but I have to tell you it is nice to be sleeping in my own bed for more than one night here and there. The show is going to be taping thru the end of year, I wish I could say that was the only thing I am going to be doing, but you know better than that. JB has a lot of surprises planned for you before the end of the year.
It was great to see so many of you out on the road, I hope all of you had as great of a summer as I did.
Until next time-
Nick

A celeb doing some good is worth a blog post, y'all!

Miley Was Inspired By Nick

Hannah Montana starlet Miley Cyrus emotionally revealed to M magazine that Nick Jonas and his struggle with diabetes has been a real inspiration for her and her own struggles with her health.

Miley spoke, ‘I was on tour with the Jonas Brothers last year and I kept getting really sick.

One night Nick stopped by my room and I wasn’t feeling great. He suggested that I test my blood sugar like he does, since he’s diabetic. I did, and my blood sugar was really low, it was bad! After that, I went to my doctor to get really checked out. I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, which means my blood sugar was always really low and I couldn’t get it back up.'

Together, Nick helped Miley change her lifestyle and unhealthy eating habits. ‘I became much more aware of the food I ate, because what I was eating before was pretty bad for me. When I’m on tour it can get bad. I’m constantly exercising so much on stage that I get really thin! Sometimes I feel overwhelmed, it can be too much.

My body just burns through the food I put in it so fast. When that happens, I make an effort to only eat healthy meals and chill out with the exercise. Watching Nick manage his diabetes over the years has been a real inspiration to me. It makes me feel like, ‘If Nick Jonas can do it, I can, too!’ I have to keep going and put on a brave face.’

So that explains why Miley is so reed-thin! Nonetheless, I understand she has a serious medical condition but heck, if it burns through calories like that... I might want a little hypo myself - beats lipo! OK, that was disgusting. I should not make fun of or belittle medical illnesses. What I find interesting about this is is that it reveals under piece to the jigsaw puzzle that is the Niley relationship. It's showing how the two bonded and why they were so compatible. Why they broke up is, after all, obvious to us all!