Part one of term paper
Nearly 16 million people in the United States--nearly one out of every 17 people--have . And about 1,800 new cases are diagnosed each day. Technically, this disease is known as " mellitus," from the Greek for excessive urination, a symptom the ancients noticed, and mellitus, from the Latin for honey--diabetic urine is filled with sugar and ...

Part two of term paper
... have . This glucose comes from food. When we eat, the digestive process breaks down carbohydrates into glucose, which is absorbed into the blood in the small intestine. People who don't have rely on insulin, a hormone made in the pancreas, to move glucose from the blood into the body's billions of cells. But people who have either don't produce insulin or can't efficiently use the insulin they produce. Without insulin, they can't move glucose into the cells. Glucose accumulates in the blood, a co ...