Dear Editor:
Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects the way your body uses food for energy. When you have diabetes, either your pancreas makes little or no insulin, or the insulin your pancreas does produce is not working the way it should. It's a disease that's lifelong, complicated and costly.
Right now, one in 10 adults in Pennsylvania has diabetes. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, if current trends continue, as many as one in three U.S. adults could have diabetes by 2050.