Diabetes is a chronic health condition that affects how your body turns food into energy. Normally, your body breaks down most of the food you eat into sugar (glucose) and releases it into your bloodstream. When your blood sugar goes up, it signals your pancreas to release insulin, a hormone that helps sugar enter your cells to be used for energy. If you have diabetes, your body doesn’t make enough—or any—insulin, or doesn’t use insulin properly. As a result, glucose stays in your blood and doesn’t reach your cells.

Type 1 diabetes: In type 1 diabetes, your body makes little or no insulin. It is usually diagnosed in children and young adults& they need to take insulin every day to stay alive.
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Type 2 diabetes: In type 2 diabetes, the cells in your body don’t use insulin properly. If you have risk factors, such as overweight or obesity, and a family history of the disease then you are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is most common in people who are 45 or older but it can develop at any age also.

Gestational diabetes: Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that develops during pregnancy. Most of the time, this type of diabetes goes away after your baby is born. But once you’ve had gestational diabetes, there is a higher chance of developing type 2 diabetes later in life.

Prediabetes: People with prediabetes have blood glucose levels that are higher than normal but not high enough to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. If you have prediabetes, you have a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the future. But with doctor consultation, diet & exercise you can definitely prevent type 2 diabetes from happening.