The International Diabetes Federation came up with and owns the rights to the blue circle that has come to be recognized as the Universal Diabetic Symbol around the world. It is a thick lined blue circle, hollow in the middle, and very simple in design. If you aren’t familiar with it and want to see the diabetic symbol, you can go to the website of the IDF and see it, or search for it using any search engine. It was designed to give diabetes a common identity around the world. The diabetic symbol was introduced in 2006 so that a simple symbol could be used to raise awareness of diabetes globally, and provide a symbol to be used to advocate for diabetic causes that needs no words and can cross language barriers, culture barriers, and sort of “brand” diabetes. The simplicity of the design couldn’t possibly be offensive to any …