Patients should see their physician for regular health check-ups and consultations for specific health conditions and complaints. Broadly speaking, diabetes is a lifelong disorder in which the body cannot properly store and provide fuel to its cells, leading to their starvation and depletion of energy throughout the body. The fuel that our cells need is called glucose, a form of sugar produced when food is digested and carried to working cells by the blood. Diabetes describes the inability of your body to produce enough insulin or to use the insulin it does produce. In either case, body cells do not receive adequate fueling to function properly.
Diabetes generally falls into one of two categories.
Fewer than 20 percent of diabetics fall into the Type-1 category. With Type-1 diabetes, symptoms are usually severe and often appear suddenly. With Type-2 diabetes, they are usually mild and slow to appear or there may be no symptoms so many people don't know they even have it. Type-2 diabetes can go undetected for four to seven years. But they leave here relieved to know that most of the changes they need to make are small and gradual, with health benefits that extend beyond management of their diabetes.