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Diabetes is a serious and common chronic disease that results from a complex interaction of estate-environment along with other risk factors such as obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. Diabetes and its complications are major global public health problem, affecting almost all populations in both developed and developing countries with high rates of morbidity and mortality associated with diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes is increasing exponentially and there is a high prevalence rate in developing countries and to the populations that suffer "Westernization" or modernization. Multiple risk factors of diabetes, delayed diagnosis to display microvascular and macrovascular complications, life-threatening complications, the failure of current treatments and the financial cost to treat this disease necessitate the development of new effective treatment strategies and appropriate prevention measures for controlling diabetes.