What is Diabetes?
Diabetes is a disease where your blood glucose, (blood sugar) levels are too high. Glucose comes from the foods you eat. Insulin is a hormone that helps the glucose get into your cells to give them energy.
a) Type I diabetes, your body does not make insulin.
b) Type II diabetes, your body does not make or use insulin well.
c) Prediabetes is where your blood sugar is higher than normal but not high enough to be called diabetes.
Without enough insulin, glucose stays in your blood. Having prediabetes puts you at a higher risk of getting Type II diabetes.