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Prediabetes:  What You Need to Know to Keep Diabetes Away: An estimated 41 million Americans have the condition identified since 2002 as prediabetes, which, if left unchecked, inevitably will lead to full-blown diabetes.

Prediabetes clearly explains what readers can do today, no matter what their age, and whether or not they have a family history of diabetes, a severe weight problem, or are members of an ethnic group at high risk-including Hispanics, Native Americans, African Americans, and Pacific Islanders. Helpful drawings and graphs are featured throughout in this new, revised edition.

 

Pre-Diabetes

Eat an apple. People with an apple body shape store excess fat around the mid-section (tummy and chest areas).

Don't be one. People with an apple-shaped body have an increased risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, and gall bladder disease. Having an apple body shape can be a warning sign of insulin resistance and pre-diabetes.

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Pre-diabetes is a serious metabolic condition that should never be ignored. It is now estimated that more than 41 million Americans have pre-diabetes. Your genes, lifestyle, and weight all play an important role in who may become pre-diabetic. Children, teens, and adults can develop pre-diabetes.

It is important to know that if you do develop type 2 diabetes you will still have to make lifestyle changes, take medications, and possibly even insulin injections. You cannot cure type 2 diabetes once you have it but if you don't follow of healthy lifestyle you will risk losing your feet, eyesight, kidney failure, and even premature death.

 

Pre-diabetes can often be reversed if taken seriously.

If you have pre-diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, PCOS, or impaired glucose tolerance you need to take it seriously. If you do not - your condition will get worse.

Making healthy choices now can prevent type 2 diabetes.

Making positive changes in your lifestyle now and following any medical treatment your doctor prescribes can often reverse pre-diabetes! You can start by eliminating unhealthy carbohydrates from your diet and taking walks each day.

There is no cure for type 2 diabetes.

If you have pre-diabetes it is important for you to know that if you do develop type 2 diabetes you will still have to make lifestyle changes, take medications, and possibly even insulin injections. There is no cure for type 2 diabetes. If you develop it and do not follow a healthy lifestyle you risk serious diabetes complications including amputation, , blindness, kidney failure, and premature death.

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