Pregnancy can be hard enough on a woman, but when you add gestational diabetes to the mix you create a very serious situation both for the mother and her unborn child.

When you have diabetes, regardless of whether it is Type 1 Diabetes or Type 2 Diabetes, the benefits of exercise and diabetes can't be overstated.

A blood sugar level or blood glucose level measures how well a person's body is processing the sugar that is taken in through the diet. Do you know what your level is?

No matter whether you suffer with diabetes or not, everyone experiences the Dawn Phenomenon.

As someone with diabetes I know firsthand the effects and symptoms of low blood sugar.

Hypoglycemia can be caused by many different things. Most cases of hypoglycemia will occur in people who have diabetes.

In order to appreciate the cause for the condition known as diabetes, one must first look at what occurs in the body of a healthy individual, particularly after such an individual has recently eaten a food that is high in carbohydrates (sugar or starch). Digestive juices rapidly act on a starch, changing it to a simple sugar. All sugars in digested food mix with all the foods in the stomach. That mix in the stomach then enters the intestines.

Now that you've been told you have diabetes you'll have to monitor your blood sugar and control your glucose level.

Diabetes is a disease that varies the way your body utilize sugar. The food you eat develops to sugar and this sugar travels through the blood to all parts of the body. Generally, insulin assists get sugar from the blood to the body's cells, where it is used for energy or power in the body.