Event at Mower County Seniors, Inc.

*Diabetes Educater Shanon Heimer, RM CDE from Austin Medical Center *Registered Dietition Jen Heugen, RD, LD from Hy-Vee Diabetes is a diseas in which the blood glucose levels are above Normal. People with diabetes have problems converting food to energy. After a meal, food is broken down into a sugar called glucose, which is carried by the blood to celld throughtout the body. Cells use insulin, a hormone made in the pancreas, to help them convert blood glucose into energy.