Increase in diabetes numbers hides a ray of hope

The rate of diabetes is increasing globally. We’re told it’s a tsunami. An epidemic. But that’s only half the story. The real picture has some rays of hope among the dark clouds.

Diabetes is a long-term condition where the body fails to regulate the amount of sugar in the blood. In type 1 diabetes, sometimes known as juvenile diabetes, an organ called the pancreas doesn’t make the hormone, insulin, needed to process blood sugar. For the roughly 9 million people with type 1 diabetes, they need daily insulin injections to manage their disease.