What is Diabetes ?

what is diabetes?  

To answer that, you first need to understand the role of insulin in your body.

When you eat, your body turns food into sugars, or glucose. At that point, your pancreas is supposed to release insulin.  Insulin serves as a “key” to open your cells, 

to allow the glucose to enter -- and allow you to use the glucose for energy.  



But with diabetes, this system does not work.This causes sugars to build up in the blood.

Diabetes can cause serious health complications including heart disease, blindness,

kidney failure, and lower-extremity amputations.  



Diabetes is becoming increasingly more common throughout the world, due to increased obesity -which can lead to metabolic syndrome or pre-diabetes leading to higher incidences of type 2 diabetes.