- Know your risk of developing diabetes
- Symptoms of Pre-diabetes
- How to Treat Pre-Diabetes and Avoid Diabetes
- Pre-diabetes has a cure
Pre-diabetes is a situation that precedes diabetes and serves as a warning to prevent disease progression. The individual may know that he is pre-diabetic in a simple blood test, where he can observe the blood glucose levels, while still fasting.
Pre-diabetes indicates that glucose is not being used well and is accumulating in the blood, but it still does not characterize diabetes. The individual is considered pre-diabetic when the values of his fasting blood glucose vary between 100 and 125 mg / dl and is considered diabetic if that value reaches 126 mg / dl.
If in addition to the increased blood glucose values, you have accumulated fat in your belly, enter your data in this test to find out what your risk of developing diabetes is:
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- Male Female
- Less than 40 years old Between 40 and 50 years old Between 50 and 60 years oldMore than 60 years old
- Larger than 102 cmBetween 94 and 102 cmLower than 94 cm
- Yes No
- Two times a weekLess than twice a week
- NoYes, 1st degree relatives: parents and / or siblingsYes, 2nd degree relatives: grandparents and / or uncles
Symptoms of Pre-diabetes
Pre-diabetes does not have any symptoms and this phase can last from 3 to 5 years. If during this period the person does not take care of himself, it is very likely that he will develop diabetes, a disease that has no cure and that needs daily control.
The only way to know if a person has diabetes is by taking tests. Normal fasting blood glucose is up to 99 mg / dl, so when the value is between 100 and 125, the person is already in pre-diabetes. Other tests that also serve to diagnose diabetes are the glycemic curve and the glycated hemoglobin test. Values between 5.7% and 6.4% are indicative of pre-diabetes.
These tests can be performed when the doctor suspects diabetes, when there is a family history or at an annual check up, for example.
How to Treat Pre-Diabetes and Avoid Diabetes
To treat prediabetes and prevent the progression of the disease, one must control the diet, reducing the intake of fats, sugar and salt, pay attention to blood pressure and do some physical activity, such as walking daily, for example.
Adding foods like passion fruit flour to your diet and eating dark green leaves daily are also great ways to fight excess blood sugar. And only by adopting all of these strategies will it be possible to prevent the development of diabetes.
In some cases the doctor may prescribe the use of drugs to control blood glucose such as Metformin, which should be adjusted according to need.
Watch the following video and see the exercises you can do for diabetes:
Pre-diabetes has a cure
People who follow all medical guidelines and adapt their diet and regular physical activity can normalize their blood glucose, preventing progression to diabetes. But after reaching that goal it is important to maintain this new healthy lifestyle so that blood glucose does not rise again.
