Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Right Now, Your Risk Of Prediabetes Is 50%!


According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than one out of three Americans aged 20 and older has prediabetes, a condition in which your glucose, or blood sugar, levels are higher than normal, but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as full-blown diabetes.

For those with prediabetes (86 million Americans in all), 15 percent to 30 percent will go on to develop type 2 diabetes within five years, if no lifestyle changes are made, again according to CDC data.
These numbers are already dismal, but new data from a large study out of The Netherlands predicts the problem is only going to get worse.
Nearly Half of Adults May Develop Prediabetes
After tracking and analyzing data from about 10,000 adults for a period of 15 years, researchers found that nearly half of 45-year-olds will develop prediabetes, also known as impaired glucose metabolism, at some point during their lifetime.
Further, three-quarters of those with elevated blood sugar levels at age 45 will go on to develop full-blown diabetes, according to the study.

While previous studies have looked into population risks of prediabetes, this study is among the first to consider a person’s lifetime risk of developing this condition – which is remarkably high. If you’re wondering what blood sugar levels are considered healthy:

·         6 millimoles/per liter (108 milligrams per deciliter) or less are considered normal or healthy
·         6mmol/L and below 7mmol/L (108 to 128 mg/dl) are considered elevated or prediabetic
·         7mmol/L or greater are diagnosed as diabetes
The silver lining to this finding is that prediabetes can typically be cured by altering your lifestyle; a diagnosis does not mean you’re destined to develop type 2 diabetes. So if you’ve been diagnosed with prediabetes, consider yourself lucky.

You have received a warning that many people don’t get (and instead progress straight to type 2 diabetes). Now you can take steps to reverse the condition and reclaim your health. In an accompanying editorial, researchers noted:

“The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing worldwide, and the prevalence of the at-risk state for the disease (often termed prediabetes) is even higher.
There is good evidence that intensive lifestyle prevention programs can prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes in those at high risk.”

Processed Food, Sugar May Be Driving Prediabetes and Diabetes Rates Sky-High

Last year, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that more than 29 million Americans were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, a statistic researchers predicted in 2001 wouldn’t be reached until 2050.

Why are rates of type 2 diabetes skyrocketing? It’s largely diet-related, and a meta-review published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings confirmed that calories from fructose (think high-fructose corn syrup) and other added sugars are the primary drivers of prediabetes and diabetes.

According to the researchers, the American Diabetes Association does not recommend restricting fructose-containing added sugars to any specific level, despite the fact that:

“Data from animal experiments and human studies implicate added sugars (eg, sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup) in the development of diabetes mellitus and related metabolic derangements that raise cardiovascular (CV) risk.”

Prediabetes is one of the most common conditions we see in our office, but also one of the easiest to correct and reverse with the proper program. If you are in this early warning stage and want to avoid becoming a full-blown diabetic, give our office a call!

In Health, 

Dr. Brad Niewierowski 


Half of All Adults Will Develop Pre-Diabetic High Blood Sugar

December 09, 2015  Mercola.com



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