There are three types of diabetes: Type 1, Type 2 and Gestational. Type 1 Diabetes is diagnosed in children and adults and it prevents the body from producing insulin. Gestational Diabetes is developed only in pregnant women and it is usually discovered in the 24th week of the pregnancy. Gestational Diabetes doesn't indicate that the woman or her unborn child will have a life-long battle with diabetes, but it does mean that they must be careful to control their blood sugar through the remainder of their pregnancy. Type 2 Diabetes, the most common,, causes a person's sugar levels to run too high. A person with Type 2 Diabetes who doesn't take insulin injections will eventually become "insulin resistant". .
The human body requires insulin in order for the body to use glucose for energy. Maintaining a healthy diet, and eating regularly will help the body break all the sugars as well as starches into glucose than from there insulin takes the sugar from the blood and takes it to the cell which prevents us from getting Type 2 Diabetes. Well if the glucose was built in blood it can cause some harmful problems to our bodies, such as kidney, heart problems, and even our eyes. .
Diabetes is a harmful disease, and nobody is that anyone can get it, but there's always a higher risk for others. Type 2 Diabetes is more common in certain races, and certain age. According to the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet, about population in the United States, 25.8 million children and adults have Diabetes, which is 8.3% of the total population. For example, less than 20 years of age 215,000 or .26% of all people have diabetes, which is about 1 I every 400 children and adolescents have diabetes. Age 20 years or older, 25.6 million or 11.3% of all people have diabetes, and age 65 years or older 10.9 million or 26.9% have diabetes. Of course we can wonder if it's developed more in men or women. According to the statistics 13.