Diabetes is a very well known disorder. Nearly sixteen million people in the United States alone, almost one out of every seventeen people, have diabetes. Diabetes is a serious illness, and there are about 1,800 new cases are being diagnosed each day. To completely understand diabetes, a person must first know how the body works with the disease and then determine which type of diabetes he/she has. There are three types of diabetes: Immune-mediated or Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, and Gestational diabetes. There are many factors that play into the development of this disease and there is another common factor, stress that can affect a person's diabetic lifestyle dramatically.
             Type 1 diabetes is a disease that affects the way your body uses food. AS stated earlier, to understand diabetes completely, one must first understand how the body works. During digestion, your body changes most of the foods you eat into glucose. Also during digestion, your body tells the pancreas to make important chemical called insulin. Insulin, like glucose enters your blood and travels to your cells. Glucose and insulin meet at your cells, where the insulin acts as a key unlocking the cells to let the glucose enter. Your cells can burn the glucose to give you energy. This is the energy a person uses to run walk, work think and do any normal activity. With diabetes a person's body still changes most foods into glucose. Glucose enters the body and travels to the cells. The cells, however, cannot use sugar, or glucose for energy without the help of insulin. Insulin is a special kind of chemical called a hormone. Insulin is made by a part of one's body called the pancreas. Your body carries the insulin made by the pancreas to the cells of your body. Insulin helps the sugar or glucose, enter the cells. Diabetes, however, is a disease in which your body is unable to properly use and store glucose. Glucose backs up...