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What is Diabetes
How Food Gives Your Body Energy
Food gives your body energy to do things like walking, shopping and also thinking.
When You Eat
What is Glucose?
Glucose is another name for sugar. Sugar can be hard to see in food.
Here are some foods with sugar in them:
Why Your Body Needs Insulin
Sometimes insulin in your body does not work properly.
Sometimes your body does not make enough insulin.
When your insulin does not work properly it can't get glucose into your body parts for energy.
Glucose builds up in the blood.
Lots of glucose in your blood is known as high blood glucose.
High blood glucose is bad for your body.
This is called diabetes.
Diabetes can make you feel tired, thirsty and go to the toilet a lot to pass urine.
If you take care of your diabetes, you will feel much better and stronger.
If you do not take care of your diabetes you can develop problems with your:
