Almost 15% of the people are in a pre diabetic state.



What is pre diabetic?

The sickness by now exists in a person, but has not yet been diagnosed. This is the time to stop diabetes from developing , throughout 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 finally uncovered by high glucose levels in the blood. Though, it actually had secretly existed for many years.

Is there someone in your family who has diabetes? Are you overweight? Do you hate 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 latest studies have proved that you can delay or even stop diabetes while still in the pre diabetic condition.

What is pre diabetic?

That is a state of concealed diabetes that shows up a few years ahead of the appearance of type 2 diabetes and occurs about always before diabetes is diagnosed.

In the pre diabetic situation the sugar level is higher than normal but not high adequate to diagnose the illness.

How wide spread is the pre diabetic?

About 15% of the population is in the pre diabetic situation. As the latest studies prove, in this state long term damage is happening in the cardio-vascular system. Research has shown that taking action during the elevated sugar level stage may avoid the appearance of type 2 diabetes in the future. This is the right time to adopt a healthy diet and to exercise; the two of them are syggested for diabetics.

What are the risk factors of developing pre diabetic ?

-Family history: brother or sister or parent with diabetes.

-Being overweight

-Not having physical activity.

-A women who gave birth to an heavy baby (over 4 kg)

-Age: the risk increases over the age of 45 and especially over 65.

How do you know 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 for sure you will develop diabetes?

This is a serious condition, which should be dealt with , and must be under supervision.

You can in fact rotate the clock back.

Research has shown that it is probable to control the pre diabetic and the diabetic by doing modifications in their diets and doing more physical activity.

Medications can slow the growth of diabetes, but correct diet together with physical activity are more efficient.

Thirty minutes of daily physical activity, with the right diet and losing 5-10% of the body weight lessen the appearance of new diabetic cases by 58%.