From generation to generation diabetes continued to claim victims in my mother's family. From recent memory my great grandmother, aunt and three cousins ​​have had diabetes. Once a trait like diabetes runs in your family, it is passed down through genetics, but it's not even guaranteed that everyone in your family will get it. You may be wondering what exactly is diabetes, what does it do to your body and is it a cure? This disease affects us in many ways, as I will present to you. First of all, diabetes also known as diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease that a person contracts due to high blood glucose levels or when the body's cells do not respond to insulin and in some cases both (Medical News Today). There are three types of diabetes type 1, type 2 and gestational. All cases of diabetes do not affect you the same, and they all have different syndromes that will affect your body differently. While men can get two of these cases of diabetes, women can get all three. Type 1 diabetes will be the first case we talk about. People get type 1 diabetes because the body doesn't produce enough insulin. Inside your body your immune system sees insulin as foreign so it starts attacking it (University of Miami). Most people with type 1 diabetes get it before they turn 40 (Medical News Today). Type 1 diabetes is not as common as type 2 and only 10% of people who have diabetes have type 1 diabetes. Most common people will see that they suffer from type 2 diabetes. Unlike type 2 diabetes type 1, type 2 diabetes occurs not because the immune system attacks insulin, but because the body simply does not produce the necessary insulin. 90% of people with diabetes are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (Medical News... middle of paper... will cause your blood sugar levels to drop (Mayo Clinic Staff). As you exercise you will notice that your levels of blood sugar will be all over the place, so it's important to have things like glucose pills in case your levels get too low. Exercise may not be the cure for diabetes, but it could be the thing that stops you from getting it. All in all, my mother's family who suffered from diabetes were considered obese. Although medications, exercise or diet certainly would not have cured anyone, if they had taken better precautions it is possible that they would have lived a longer life characteristic of the disease. my family I find it important to exercise and pay attention to what I eat so as to avoid getting any type of diabetes Make it a goal to be aware of what you are doing in everyday life because you would never know what you are doing eating or. what you do today will affect you tomorrow.