Lifestyle Makeover for Diabetics and Pre-Diabetics
Pre Diabetes
Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have “pre-diabetes” — blood glucose levels that are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. There are 57 million people in the United States who have pre-diabetes. Recent research has shown that some long-term damage to the body, especially the heart and circulatory system, may already be occurring during pre-diabetes.
Research has also shown that if you take action to manage your blood glucose when you have pre-diabetes, you can delay or prevent type 2 diabetes from ever developing.
What Is Diabetes Mellitus?
Diabetes Mellitus is the scientific name for what most people call diabetes or sugar diabetes.
Another form of diabetes which is characterized by excessive dilute urine production, is called diabetes insipidus.
It is understandable that people with diabetes worry more about sugar than about any other food. For centuries, sugar has been considered the enemy, the worst possible thing people with diabetes could consume. Why? The very name of the disease. For years diabetes mellitus was commonly referred to as “sugar diabetes”. Mellitus roughly translates as “sweet”.Diabetes mellitus is now often simply referred to as diabetes, and is distinguished by the body’s inability to lower blood glucose levels. As blood glucose levels rise in the body, the hormone insulin should take over, and cause the excess glucose to be taken up by the muscles and liver and then stored as glycogen. However, in diabetics, this doesn’t happen.