How to Stop Prediabetes and High Blood Sugar Levels Destroying Your Health?

By >> Beverleigh H Piepers

Prediabetes, well you would think you either have type 2 diabetes or you don't!  In one way it's true, you don't yet have type 2 but it's certainly trying to catch you.  Already changes are going on inside your body and they have been for a time now, probably a couple of years.  These changes have affected how your body uses both insulin and sugar.

Blood sugar levels vary through the day, your levels are lower before eating and naturally higher following a meal.  Your recent test for fasting blood sugars showing you were prediabetic, would have been between 100 to 125 mg/dl (5.5 to 6.9 mmol/l).  Levels higher than 126 mg/dl (7 mmol/l) indicate full blown type 2 diabetes.  The impaired or prediabetic range for the glucose tolerance test is between 140 to 199 mg/dl (7.8 to 11 mmol/l).

Women, Type 2 Diabetes and Weight Loss!

By >> Beverleigh H Piepers 

Many women diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are overweight, even obese. At least eighty per cent of women with type 2 diabetes weigh twenty per cent more than they should for their height and age... this is what is known as obesity. Weight control is a critical health issue for women at this present time.

Today the average women is 5ft 4" (163 cm) tall and weighs 164 pounds (74 kg)... this is almost 25 pounds (11 kg) heavier than the average woman back in the 1960's. The female population is living longer than ever, consequently the incidence of type 2 diabetes is growing.