Pre Diabetic situation
Almost one out of seven of the populance are in a pre diabetic condition.
What is pre diabetic?
The illness by now 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 they had the pre diabetic situation. The illness is finally uncovered by high glucose levels in the blood. However, it actually had covertly existed for many years.
Is there someone in your family who has ? Are you fat? Do you dislike physical exercises? Together with you, there are many others who are included in a high risk category with the possibility of developing diabetes in the future.
How can we prevent from happening?
Many new studies have shown that you can delay or even avoid diabetes as still in the pre diabetic situation.
What is pre diabetic?
That is a condition of concealed diabetes that shows up a few years previous to the appearance of type 2 diabetes and occurs roughly 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 most up to date studies show, in this condition long term damage takes place in the cardio-vascular system. Research has proved that taking preventive measures during the elevated sugar level stage may avoid the break out of type 2 diabetes in the future. This is the right time to accept a healthy diet and to exercise; both of which 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 heavy baby (over 4 kg)
-Age: the risk increases over the age of 45 and particulary over 65.
How do you know if you are pre diabetic?
There are 2 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 serious situation, which should be dealt with , and must be controlled.
You can actually turn the clock back.
Studies has proves that it is probable 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 correct diet together with physical activity are more effective.
30 minutes of daily physical activity, with the right diet and losing 5-10% of the body weight reduces the appearance of new diabetic cases by 58%.
