Y ou or someone you love could have diabetes and not know it. Diabetes is a disease that affects the way the body uses food.
Diabetes can lead to blindness, heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, and amputations.
There are more than 13 million Americans who have diabetes, and an estimated 6 million people have diabetes and do not even know it. Diabetes is a disease that affects the way your body turns food into energy. Normally the body changes the food you eat like sugars and starches into fuel. This is a form of sugar called glucose. A hormone in your body called insulin helps this glucose enter the cells.