What is pre diabetic?
The illness already exists in a person, but has not yet been diagnosed. This is the moment to avoid diabetes from developing , through physical exercises, balanced diet and weight loss.
About a third of the people who have diabetes, do not even know that the have the pre diabetic situation..
The illness is at last exposed by high glucose levels in the blood. Though, it actually had secretly existed for many years.
Is there any one in your family who has diabetes? Are you fat? Do you disgust physical exercises? Along with you, there are many others who are built in a high risk category with the possibility of developing diabetes in the future.
What can you do about it?
Many latest studies have proved that you can holdup or even prevent diabetes as still in the pre diabetic condition.
What is pre diabetic?
That is a condition of concealed diabetes that shows up a few years before the appearance of type 2 diabetes and occurs about always before diabetes is diagnosed.
In the pre diabetic condition the sugar level is higher than normal but not high adequate to diagnose the illness.
How common is the pre diabetic?
Fifteen percent of the population is in the pre diabetic condition. As the recent studies show, in this state long term damage takes place in the cardio-vascular system. Research has shown that taking action while the high sugar level stage may prevent the break out of type 2 diabetes in the future. This is the exact time to adopt a healthy diet and to exercise; the two of them are recommended for diabetics.
What are the risk factors of developing pre diabetic ?
-Family history: brother or sister or parent with diabetes.
-Being obese
-Lack of physical activity.
-A women who gave birth to an overweight baby (over 4 kg)
-Age: the riskis getting higher over the age of 45 and especially over 65.
How would you recognize if you are pre diabetic?
There are two different tests your doctor can use:
The fasting plasma glucose test (FPG) and the
Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT).
If it will be found that you are pre diabetic, is it sure you would develop diabetes?
This is a grave condition, which can be dealt with , and must be under supervision.
You can actually turn the clock back.
Research has shown that it is possible to control the
pre diabetic and the diabetic by making replacement in their diets and increasing their levels of physical activity.
Medications can slow the development of diabetes, but good diet together with physical activity are more efficient.
Thirty minutes of each day physical activity, with the correct diet and losing 5-10% of the body weight reduces the appearance of new diabetic cases by 58%.
