Treating Diabetes with Good Nutrition Treating Diabetes with Good Nutrition Types of Diabetes While people with diabetes all have high blood sugar, the causes of their high blood sugar vary.
Physicians have classified diabetes into four types.
These classifications serve to identify the underlying disease process which is causing high blood sugar for individual patients. This terminology is not a diagnosis of diabetes, but rather of slightly high blood sugars. This disease is called Impaired Glucose Tolerance and, while different from diabetes, has health risks of its own. Not all exercises or diets are suitable for everyone. Before you begin this program, you should have permission from your doctor to participate in vigorous exercise and change of diet.