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What is pre diabetes?
Before diabetes especially Type 2 develops, first there are symptoms of pre diabetes. This can also be referred to a ‘borderline diabetes’ or ‘impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glucose’. This means that your blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes and not high enough to be treated.
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Our modern day, Western Diet is creating an epidemic of diabetics and those with related diabetic conditions. We’ve gone from eating 70 pounds of sugar per person per year to eating 150 pounds, according the US Statistics. Teens and the fast food crowd eat way more. In our grandparents and great-grandparents day, there was no such thing as convenience food. It was the baby boomer that rode the first wave of fast and convenience foods. It was the baby boomers and their families that bought the ‘billions and billions served’. Now, it is them that are leading the obesity and diabetic wave.
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A recent press release by the Centers for Disease Control stated that the new cases of diabetes increased by 90 percent over the last 10 years. And with diabetes comes a whole new set of complications that patients must seriously think about when being proactive about their health. One such complication is Diabetic Neuropathy. According to the Centers for Disease control it affects 60 to 70 percent of the patients diagnosed with this disease.
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