According to the World Health Organisation ‘diabetes is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose (or blood sugar) which leads over time to serious damage to the heart blood vessels eyes kidneys and nerves’. According to this premier organization in 2014 there were around 422 million diabetics worldwide and in 2016 it was the seventh leading cause of death worldwide. Type 1 vs type 2 diabetes This disease is of two types type 1 and type 2 diabetes. In type 2 diabetes which is also known as adult onset diabetes. Your body becomes resistant to insulin