By now, you've probably heard all the negative press about diabetes. How it is spreading in epidemic proportions. How people of all ages are finding themselves with the condition. And how managing diabetes is often a life-long task with some potentially serious symptoms.
So, why not do something before you end up with a full- blown case of diabetes? Go and get your blood sugar levels checked. Before people develop diabetes, they may have a condition the medical community calls "pre-diabetes."
When you have pre-diabetes, it means that your blood glucose levels are higher than normal, but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes.
It is estimated that there are as many as 54 million pre- diabetic people in the U.S. In the pre-diabetic state, you could already suffer some long-term damage to your heart and circulatory system. But the good news is that, if you take action, you could delay or prevent Type 2 diabetes from ever happening.
You can find out if you have pre-diabetes by taking two different tests at your doctor's office. One test is called the fasting plasma glucose test (call it FPG for short). The FPG test measures your blood glucose levels. If they show up as abnormal, you have impaired fasting glucose (IFG). The second test, the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), can tell you whether you have impaired glucose tolerance (IGT).
Pre-diabetes is much easier to treat than full-blown diabetes. Your body is still regulating insulin levels to some degree. But even more importantly, you could completely reverse the condition while you are in the pre-diabetes stage. All it could take are a few changes to your diet and exercise program.
Check out the results from "The Diabetes Prevention Program." This program was a study that aimed to discover
whether diet and exercise or an oral diabetes drug called "Metformin" could prevent or delay the onset of Type 2 diabetes in people with impaired glucose tolerance. What researchers found was that, over the three years of the study, diet and exercise sharply reduced the chances that a person would develop Type 2 diabetes -- much more so than Metformin did!
whether diet and exercise or an oral diabetes drug called "Metformin" could prevent or delay the onset of Type 2 diabetes in people with impaired glucose tolerance. What researchers found was that, over the three years of the study, diet and exercise sharply reduced the chances that a person would develop Type 2 diabetes -- much more so than Metformin did!
If you find your blood sugar levels are a little high, try getting regular exercise and eating foods that won't spike your glucose levels. Keeping your blood sugar under control could help to remedy many, many other conditions as well. Some medical professionals believe that high blood sugar is responsible for as much as half of all the known diseases that we are commonly afflicted with.
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