Type 2 Diabetes: The Basics. Diabetes is a life-long disease that affects the way your body handles glucose, a kind of sugar, in your blood. Most people with the condition have type 2.There are about 27 million people in the U.S. with it.Another 86 million have prediabetes: Their blood glucose is not normal, but not high enough to be diabetes yet.iabetes is a life-long disease that affects the way your body handles glucose, a kind of sugar, in your blood. Most people with the condition have type 2. There are about 27 million people in the U.S. with it. Another 86 million have prediabetes: Their blood glucose is not normal, but not high enough to be diabetes yet.
bread and butter n 1. (modifier) a means of support or subsistence; livelihood: the inheritance was their bread and butter. 2. bread-and-butter a. providing a basic means of subsistence: a bread-and-butter job. b. solid, reliable, or practical: a bread-and-butter player.
1 The first reference to butter in our written history was found on a 4,500-year-old limestone tablet illustrating how butter was made. 2  It is generally believed the word butter originates from the bou-tyron, Greek for âcow cheeseâ, however it may have come from the language of cattle-herding Scythians.