
What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a disease when your blood has too much sugar (glucose) in it. Sugar is in the food we eat and is at very high levels in fruits, milk, yoghurt and starchy foods like bread, pasta, rice, cereals. Usually, sugar is moved out of the bloodstream into cells, by a hormone called insulin, and used as energy to fuel the body. Insulin is made in your pancreas, which is an organ that sits under your stomach and liver.