What Causes Diabetes?
Most of the food we eat turns into glucose or sugar; this is how the body gets the energy it needs to work. The pancreas is an organ near the stomach that makes insulin. Insulin is the hormone that helps the energy gets into your body’s cells. When your body does not have enough insulin or when the insulin is not used as is needed, the sugar stays in the blood stream. This means that the insulin is not available to the cells. Over time, this causes the blood sugar or blood glucose level to rise. A high or elevated blood glucose level is a sign of diabetes. Over time, this high blood sugar becomes toxic or like a poison in the body and can hurt every part of your body.
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Diabetes is a disease where the pancreas does not produce the insulin the body needs to use sugar or glucose in the right way.
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