Diabetes Basics: What Is Diabetes?
Filed in General on Jul.27, 2010
Learn and know the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, as well as what happens to the body when you have diabetes.
Learn and know the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, as well as what happens to the body when you have diabetes.
Simply put, diabetes is the inability of the body to properly handle sugars. When we eat or drink our pancreas produces a hormone called insulin. Insulin is released into the blood and helps regulate the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood. Diabetes is a state where this process is not working properly. This is [...]