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Prediabetes usually starts very slowly in people, and then only becomes visible when some symptoms are evident. The truth is, though, that you may get prediabetes long before you are ever aware of it.

At some point in your life, the amount of sugar that remains in your blood changes. Instead of returning to normal sugar levels rather quickly after you eat, the sugar is retained longer in your bloodstream.
Generally, this means that you begin to get tired quicker. Your energy levels start to decrease because the energy that your cells and organs need to function properly is not being transferred from the bloodstream to where it needs to go.

In the case of Type I diabetes, this will usually start suddenly. Most likely, it will only be detected when someone has to go to the hospital for serious sugar problems. The good news is that most people will not get Type I diabetes (also called children’s diabetes) because that is when it usually becomes evident.

Type II diabetes most commonly comes after people….  click here to read the rest

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If you are showing prediabetes symptoms, are concerned about prediabetes levels or metabolic syndrome you should watch this video.    If you had a pre diabetes test and now have prediabetes and want to reverse it visit our web site.

A lot of people wonder why prediabetes is such a concern. They have not looked into the matter and seem content to
just keep on going as usual - in spite of the doctor’s warning.

Of course, when a doctor gives a warning, some heed should be taken. When I was first told my sugar was high, I thought very little about it. I noted it mentally, but did nothing. Unfortunately, that was a foolish move. Later, I began to learn what it actually meant. I was surprised and wished I had taken it seriously earlier than what I did.

One thing that could be happening when prediabetic conditions are present is that there is an increase in triglyceride levels. This leads to the development of heart disease in many cases. Even worse is the strong possibility of damage to your heart and your arteries. That also encourages heart disease and eventual stroke, too.

Other problems are also occurring, many of them related to problems that are typical among diabetics. As you can see, the problems do not start only when you are declared to have diabetes. The important thing is to begin taking preventive action at once. After all, no one wants the problems diabetics’ face if they do not have to have them. Wouldn’t you like to start…  Here is the rest of the article and the complications of prediabetes

Think You Don’t Have Prediabetes?
Prediabetes Information

By now you have probably heard the various headlines that talk about how Americans (and other nations, too) are rapidly putting on the pounds. This is leading to all kinds of increased health problems - including prediabetes.

It is estimated that over 54 million people in this country have prediabetes. Even more serious than that is the belief by doctors that at least 21 million people have the condition and do not even know it. They have never been diagnosed for it.

Prediabetes can easily go undetected for years, leading many millions of people to wrongly believe that they do not have it. Unfortunately, the life style of most people continues to support the conditions needed to bring on full-blown diabetes - years earlier than may otherwise occur.

What many people do not know is that prediabetes may be present without any symptoms whatsoever. Have you ever wondered if you might be headed toward getting diabetesWhile we all can say hopefully not, do you know what the symptoms of diabetes are - even if you had some? Are you one of the people… Read the rest here

What is Insulin Resistance?

In Type II diabetes, there is a condition that is referred to as insulin resistance. This simply means that the insulin you have is not as effective as it should be.

The good thing here is that there still is insulin being produced. If you were not able to produce it, your body would need insulin injections immediately - and from then on. The problem is that the insulin is not doing the job it is supposed to do.

When this happens, it causes the sugar in your blood stream to stay in your blood stream much longer than it should. Your muscles and organs will not receive their energy from it. In order to compensate for the additional sugar, your body will produce more insulin than normally would be required.

The extra insulin and the maintained higher sugar levels will start to cause damage. All of your organs are affected by it, and soon begin to deteriorate. Also, the increased production of insulin soon wears out your insulin producing cells and they soon stop - that is when you have full-blown diabetes.

While it does not happen overnight, by doing nothing about your prediabetes, you are guaranteeing that you will have it before long. Why take that risk, or play with…  To read the rest of What is insulin resistance follow this link.

Prediabetes - What Does It Mean?
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If you or someone you love has recently been told by a doctor that you now have prediabetes, then it is possible that you may not have heard that term before. It is a rather new medical term, although it refers to a condition that has been around for millennia. It used to be, when doctors found that someone had a little too much sugar in their blood, that they were told things like: “Your sugar is high”; “You have a touch of sugar;” or something similar.

While that sounded sweet and good, it really did not help patients to understand what the problem was. Of course when a doctor does not make something real clear, then medical advice often goes unheeded.

In order to remedy this problem, doctors wanted a term that would put a little fear into their patients when they heard of this condition. Instead of something that sounds kind of sweet, now you have the term “prediabetes” - which indeed carries an attention-getting tone to it.

The word “prediabetes” means that you are on your way to getting diabetes. You may be wondering, though, What should you do about it? Or, Is there a best course of action to take to reduce your risk further of getting diabetes? What about a special diabetic diet? Will insulin be necessary?

There is a good chance that you could avoid diabetes altogether - if you act quickly. In order to take the guesswork out of what you need to do, I’d like to show you how to defeat it in my new comprehensive Ebook on Prediabetes. With very practical steps and loads of great tips, I will show you how to get started immediately click here.

CNN ranks the discovery of a diabetes gene as one of the top medical discoveries of 2008.  Learn to prevent diabetes while it is still prediabetes at treatprediabetes.com

Having a parent with type 2 diabetes ups your odds of developing the disease, but why do some sibs get it and others don’t? The answer lies somewhere in your genetic code, and this year brought scientific sleuths closer to cracking it. Research teams from the United States and Finland uncovered four new genetic variants linked to an increased risk of diabetes, which afflicts about 170 million people worldwide. Combined with the six variants scientists had discovered previously, it brings the total to 10. Eventually, these discoveries will aid experts in pinpointing those at greatest risk for developing type 2 diabetes.

This article appeared in Science News.  Prediabetics need to understand and manage their disease.  But where can prediabetics turn for good information on their disease?  Learn 5 easy ways to improve prediabetes at www.treatprediabetes.com

ScienceDaily (Dec. 5, 2008) — A third of Americans with diabetes do not know that they have it, and many more who have prediabetic conditions are unaware that they are at risk.  A University of Missouri researcher has created a clinical tool to identify those at highest risk for having undetected hyperglycemia, impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and undiagnosed diabetes.

If these conditions are identified early, patients may benefit from preventative strategies that can minimize progression to diabetes, other diseases and mortality.

“Diabetic risk factors are not equal and assessing a combination of risk factors can be confusing,” said Richelle J. Koopman, assistant professor of family and community medicine in the MU School of Medicine. “A tool that weighs the relative contributions of multiple risk factors and creates an overall risk score will help clinicians decide which patients to screen for diabetes. The tool we have developed is easy to use and the screening can be done with pencil and paper. Patients can do it at a health fair or a physician’s office.”

The Tool to Assess Likelihood of Fasting Glucose Impairment (TAG-IT) is designed to use factors that are self-reported or easily measured. The six factors include: age, sex, BMI, family history resting heart rate and measured high blood pressure.

The average age of diagnosis for diabetes in the United States is 46 years old. However, patients are likely to develop prediabetic conditions at a younger age. In the United States, 57 million people have IFG. As type 2 diabetes becomes an increasing burden in younger populations, it’s important to have a screening tool that can assess undiagnosed diabetes and IFG in people as young as 20, Koopman said.

“There has been increasing evidence that prediabetic states are associated with diseases and other complications, and strategies that prevent diabetes in those with prediabetes are effective,” Koopman said. “The TAG-IT tool will help physicians assess patients’ risk levels. Hopefully, knowing their TAG-IT scores will encourage high-risk patients to use preventative strategies and make positive changes in their behaviors. The tool has potential as a Web-based screening tool that could improve awareness and encourage compliance with lifestyle changes recommended by physicians.”