By Beverleigh H Piepers
Type 2 diabetes is a disease no one wants to find out they have. However, if there is a good thing about this illness is that it can be prevented long before it's ever diagnosed. So many people are walking around in a constant state of prediabetes and have absolutely no idea they are heading down a dark, potentially fatal road. If you have prediabetes or are overweight, you have an opportunity to turn your life around and improve your health.
Prediabetes is a medical condition that can be treated well in advance of turning into full-blown Type 2 diabetes...it is defined as having a fasting blood sugar reading of 100 to 125 mg/dL (5.5 to 6.9 mmol/L). This blood sugar level is not high enough to give you a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes, but it surely means if you do not intervene now, you are well and truly on your way.
Recently, the Diabetes Prevention Program study proved conclusively that people with prediabetes are able to prevent the development of the disease by making simple changes in their diet and increasing their level of physical activity. Many of these people are able to return their blood sugar levels back to a normal range.
Another part of the study showed that certain medications might help to delay the development of Type 2 diabetes, but exercise and diet actually worked better than the medications. Simply exercising 30 minutes a day at a moderate pace, paired with a 5 to 10% reduction in body weight equaled a 58% reduction in diabetes.
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is working hard to help people grasp their risk of developing prediabetes. The idea is to try to "turn back the clock" so that people can know their risk early and prevent diabetes from ever becoming a problem at all.
Among some of the recommendations being made by the ADA are certain dietary suggestions. For instance, people with prediabetes should be eating:
* a lot of fruits and vegetables from every color of the rainbow
* they need to consume non-starchy vegetables such as broccoli, green beans and spinach with meals
* another recommendation would be to add more whole-grain foods over processed grain products that you normally see in the interior section of your grocery store
* including more fish in the diet is also a recommendation along with choosing lean cuts of meat and non-fat dairy such as skim milk
Of course, there are many other tips and tricks that a prediabetic can use to avoid contracting the illness.
Stopping Type 2 diabetes in its tracks before it becomes a potentially life-threatening disease is so important as it is growing more and more prevalent in today's society. Fast food and on the go lifestyles are not helping people to understand that their Type 2 diabetes risk is growing daily.
Type 2 diabetes is a disease no one wants to find out they have. However, if there is a good thing about this illness is that it can be prevented long before it's ever diagnosed. So many people are walking around in a constant state of prediabetes and have absolutely no idea they are heading down a dark, potentially fatal road. If you have prediabetes or are overweight, you have an opportunity to turn your life around and improve your health.
Prediabetes is a medical condition that can be treated well in advance of turning into full-blown Type 2 diabetes...it is defined as having a fasting blood sugar reading of 100 to 125 mg/dL (5.5 to 6.9 mmol/L). This blood sugar level is not high enough to give you a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes, but it surely means if you do not intervene now, you are well and truly on your way.
Recently, the Diabetes Prevention Program study proved conclusively that people with prediabetes are able to prevent the development of the disease by making simple changes in their diet and increasing their level of physical activity. Many of these people are able to return their blood sugar levels back to a normal range.
Another part of the study showed that certain medications might help to delay the development of Type 2 diabetes, but exercise and diet actually worked better than the medications. Simply exercising 30 minutes a day at a moderate pace, paired with a 5 to 10% reduction in body weight equaled a 58% reduction in diabetes.
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is working hard to help people grasp their risk of developing prediabetes. The idea is to try to "turn back the clock" so that people can know their risk early and prevent diabetes from ever becoming a problem at all.
Among some of the recommendations being made by the ADA are certain dietary suggestions. For instance, people with prediabetes should be eating:
* a lot of fruits and vegetables from every color of the rainbow
* they need to consume non-starchy vegetables such as broccoli, green beans and spinach with meals
* another recommendation would be to add more whole-grain foods over processed grain products that you normally see in the interior section of your grocery store
* including more fish in the diet is also a recommendation along with choosing lean cuts of meat and non-fat dairy such as skim milk
Of course, there are many other tips and tricks that a prediabetic can use to avoid contracting the illness.
Stopping Type 2 diabetes in its tracks before it becomes a potentially life-threatening disease is so important as it is growing more and more prevalent in today's society. Fast food and on the go lifestyles are not helping people to understand that their Type 2 diabetes risk is growing daily.
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