Introduction: What is Diabetes really?

Basically, diabetes mellitus or simply DIABETES is an illness that causes the sugar level in a person’s blood to be too high. Another word for blood sugar is glucose.

GLUCOSE is the type of sugar that is the main source of energy needed by the human body. In order to live, the human body must have glucose.

Not only does the body need to have glucose, the body must also control where glucose goes. Some of the body’s glucose must stay in the blood, and some of the body’s glucose must leave the blood and move to other parts of the body where it is needed or stored for later use. When a person has diabetes, too much of the body’s glucose stays in the blood.