Type-2 diabetes mellitus is sometimes mistermed as class-2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes. Millions of Americans have been diagnosed with it and many more are unaware that they even have it. This class 2 of diabetes mellitus is most common among African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asians, Native Hawaiians, other Pacific Islanders, and the elderly.

Type-2 diabetes, or class 2 diabetes, occurs when the body does not produce enough insulin. What happens is that the body breaks down all of the sugars and starches that you eat into glucose. Glucose is then turned into energy for your body to use. The body uses a hormone called insulin to achieve this.

In a normal, healthy body, insulin delivers the glucose to the cell and the cell takes it in to either use it as energy for the body or stores it as fat. However, …