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.
Itâs not the same as almond paste or marzipan, both of which are made from finely ground almonds (but with a fair amount of sugar added) and used in baking. The texture of almond butter is similar to peanut butter (they are jarred the same and sold alongside one another at the grocer), but differ in taste. Whereas peanut butter has a pronounced, well, peanut flavor, almond butter has a richer, creamier taste that is nutty, but (oddly) not distinctly almondy. Nutritionally, they are similar. Two tablespoons of peanut butter have 188 calories and 16 grams of fat.