One of the best thing you can do for your health is to know how to detect diabetes before it become an even bigger problem in your life. If you don't detect it, you cannot take care of it.
Believe it or not, there are quite a few people out there who don't exactly know what diabetes is. Diabetes is a disorder characterised by hyperglycemia or elevated blood glucose (blood sugar). When the amount of sugar in our bloods runs too low or to high it is quite typical for anyone to not feel very well.
Diabetes is a term generally used when speaking of a person who has a blood sugar level that is consistently high. Millions of people have diabetes; however most of them do not realize it. In the long term, diabetes can cause complications in the kidneys, eyes, heart, nerves and blood vessels.
There are two types of diabetes - Type 1 and Type 2. Type 1 diabetes (insulin deficiency) means there is not enough insulin being produced. Type 2 diabetes (insulin resistance) occurs when there is plenty of insulin being produced but cells in our bodies are very resistant to its action, which in turn causes your blood sugar to consistently be high.
