I would like to comment on the term "pre-diabetes and borderline diabetes". As a health care practitioner there in fact is no validity to either of these terms. You are either diabetic or not! If being diagnosed as pre-diabetes indicates having a blood glucose level that is a high normal but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetic, then that would confirm that almost everyone other than a true diabetic is a pre-diabetic!
It's like saying your pre-pregnant!
Anyone who is obese, is over 45 yrs of age, has abdominal girth obesity, who lead a sedentary lifestyle, eat an unhealthy diet are high risk to develop diabetes and lifestyle changes can prevent this.
Education is the priority here, people need to know what the risks are but they don't require a non-valid diagnosis to scare them into action!
- 5/31/2012 1:56:32 AM