What is diabetes?
Your body changes most of the food you eat into a form of sugar called glucose. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that allows glucose to enter every cell of your body to be used as an energy source.
Diabetes is a disease that occurs when a person’s body does not produce enough insulin or can not use insulin properly. When you have diabetes, sugar builds up in the blood instead of moving into the cells.
Too much sugar in the blood can cause serious health problems, including heart disease and nerve damage and kidney.
There are two types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes occurs when the body does not produce any insulin. In type 2 diabetes the body does not produce enough insulin or cells ignore the insulin. Nearly 95% of people diagnosed with diabetes have type 2 diabetes.