What's Type 1 Diabetes? A person who has type 1 diabetes can’t use glucose (the body’s main type of sugar) for energy. That’s because their body stopped making the hormone insulin.

Diabetes is a disease that affects how the body uses glucose, a sugar that is the body's main source of fuel. Your body needs glucose to keep running.

Actor James Norton is reading a book for CBeebies Bedtime Stories that is aimed at helping children and their families understand diabetes. James has also talked to us about living with type 1 ...

You’re more likely to get type 1 diabetes if you’re a child or teenager, you have a parent or sibling with the condition, or you carry certain genes that are linked to the disease. Type 2 ...

According to the American Diabetes Association: If a man has type 1 diabetes, his child has a 1 in 17 chance of developing type 1 diabetes. If a woman has type 1 diabetes: her child has a 1 in 25 ...