Many, many aboriginal people have type 2 diabestes or are at risk for developing the disease. Type 2 diabetes is a serious disease and cause many health problems or complications! 
Once you have diabetes, you have the disease for life!

• Diabetes is a disease which happens when your body does not make enough insulin or the body cannot use the insulin made by the body.  It is a disease for life. 
• The body needs insulin to change the sugar that comes from the food we eat into energy that is needed by the body.  When there is a problem with insulin, glucose (sugar) levels increase in the blood. 
• When blood sugar levels are higher than normal, a person then has diabetes. 
• Damage to blood vessels happens when blood sugar levels stay high for too long. 
• When blood sugars are not monitored and controlled, a person can develop symptoms and complications can damage can be done to the heart, to the eyes, to the hands and feet and to the kidneys.