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When the food we eat is digested it provides us with energy and growth but the condition called diabetes does not allow this process to work as it should. We must all have glucose to provide us with sufficient energy to carry out everyday tasks. Diabetes interrupts the transportation of glucose around the body. When the glucose fails to leave the bloodstream as it should, it causes high blood sugar levels.

If you do not know much about this problem, there is some basic information below. The first type is called type one and primarily affects young people, usually called juvenile onset diabetes and is where the body completely stops the production of insulin; affected individuals or diabetics must take insulin daily to survive. The purpose of insulin is to regulate the amount of glucose in our blood. Type 2 is also called adult onset or non-insulin dependent diabetes; this is caused when the insulin is either not being produced in sufficient quantities or there is a problem in its use, however, a careful diet plan can usually treat the condition.

Those energy foods which we all need to live are pasta, rice, potatoes, bread and fruit of course. Having high levels of glucose in your blood that is not entering the cells will over long periods, cause a number of serious conditions including blindness, amputations, heart and kidney conditions. By sticking to a diabetes health care regime, most of these conditions can be helped; a number of the conditions will actually get better whilst others will be slowed down. Care of your condition relies on you maintaining certain aspects and any prescribed medication must be taken routinely; this includes watching your blood sugar levels, blood fat and cholesterol in addition to quitting smoking.

You will also need to maintain your weight, and maintain your blood pressure to within the guidelines set by your doctor. Diabetes once recognized in the sufferer will be with them for the rest of their lives; in the United States there are reports of it affecting over two and a half percent of the population. Studies suggest that it is not the whole story as experts believe there are as many people again that have the disease that have not yet been diagnosed; each year there are over six hundred thousand new cases. It is a worrying fact that whilst 34,000 American citizens die each year as a direct result of diabetes, another 320,000 die that have the condition where it may be an underlying reason.

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