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 * Diabetes**

Diabetes is currently an incurable condition when too much glucose (sugar) is in the blood.

Diabetes can only be controlled, by watching what you eat, what you do, and taking insulin shots regularly.

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Diabetes is a disease in which the body either produces too little insulin or the body doesn't respond to the insulin. In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas does not make enough insulin, therefore, there would be too much glucose or blood sugar in the bloodstream and that would cause problems. This type of diabetes is usually found in children. It is the type of diabetes in which you get when you are born. Only 10% of the people who have diabetes are in type 1. The other 90% are suffering from type 2 diabetes. In this type of diabetes, the body does not respond to the insulin, therefore, the glucose cannot get out of the bloodstream.

In both types of diabetes, currently, the best way treat it is by providing your body with insulin. Since digestion will destroy the insulin, the only way to get insulin into the bloodstream is by injecting. Injecting is very painful, therefore, researchers are trying to find other ways to get insulin into the bloodstream.