What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a disease when your blood has too much sugar (glucose) in it. Sugar is in the food we eat and is at very high levels in fruits, milk, yoghurt and starchy foods like bread, pasta, rice, cereals. Usually, sugar is moved out of the bloodstream into cells, by a hormone called insulin, and used as energy to fuel the body. Insulin is made in your pancreas, which is an organ that sits under your stomach and liver.
We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples and Traditional Owners/Custodians of these lands, in the spirit of reconciliation.
We recognise that First Nations peoples have cared for Country for millennia and seek to learn from both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing.
We acknowledge that sovereignty of this land was never ceded and pay our respects to First Nations Elders – Past, Present and to emerging young leaders who will carry their heritage, customs, language and cultural practices into the future.
