Diabetes is a disease that affects how the body uses glucose, the main type of sugar in the blood. Glucose, which comes from the foods we eat, is the major source of energy needed to fuel the body 's functions. To use glucose, the body needs the hormone insulin. But in people with …show more content…
Diabetes is most common amongst the minorities. In 2013, it was tested and proved 7.6% of white Americans were diagnosed with Diabetes while 29% of African and Native Americans were diagnosed with Diabetes and It seems to me that because of that diabetes is put at the end of the lists when it is actually one of the most occurring diseases. Diabetes is a disease you cannot grow out of. You do not turn twenty-two and after that it is set in stone that you cannot be diagnosed with diabetes. It also is a disease that has no cure therefore I believe more attention should be put on it because I am sure all people do not want to be put in a situation where you are diagnosed with a disease that you have no cure for and there is no promise that you will live a healthy life with no