Diabetes

Maintaining Control: Managing your Type 2 Diabetes

Diabetes develops when a person’s body can’t use insulin properly or can’t make enough insulin (The College of Family Physicians of Canada, 2007). Your body needs insulin to be able to use sugar, or “glucose”, for energy. Without insulin, sugar levels in the blood rise.
There are three types of diabetes: type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. (First Nations Centre, 2011)

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