Diabetes is a chronic condition that affects how your body turns food into energy. Most of the food you eat is broken down into sugar and released into your bloodstream. When your blood sugar goes up, it signals your pancreas to release insulin. Insulin acts like a key to let the blood sugar into your body’s cells to use as energy. With diabetes, your body either doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t use the insulin it makes as well as it should. When this happens, too much bl