Diabetes

Is strongly related to heredity, but obese people and alcoholics with more than forty (40) years have a greater tendency to the disease. Diabetes is caused by the body's difficulty in transforming sugar for lack or alteration of a hormone called insulin. There are two types of diabetes:
Type I or insulin-dependent, manifested most commonly in young people.
Type II, or insulin-independent, which usually begins in middle age and is slow.
It is important to diet, physical activity and medical control.