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:

   Cake                          Jam                   Soft  Drink              Ice Cream

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.

                              Tired                                                                    Sweaty

                       Confused                                                        Going to the toilet a lot

                            Teary                                                                       Thirsty

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:

  Eyes             Feet              Weight