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1 posted on 07/06/2019 1:26:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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2 posted on 07/06/2019 1:35:33 PM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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Worldwide, about 352 million adults have elevated blood sugar that's not high enough to warrant a diabetes diagnosis, the study team notes in the Journal of Internal Medicine. By 2045, that's projected to rise to 587 million, or 8.3 per cent of adults worldwide.

They must mostly live in the US NorthEast because EVERY senior I know in NY, CT, PA and WV has been diagnosed as pre-diabetic.

3 posted on 07/06/2019 1:46:04 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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Having exhausted the market for diabetics, the CDC and Big Pharma are partnering to expand the number of folks who need their meds. I may be cynical but prove me wrong.


4 posted on 07/06/2019 1:59:24 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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The greatest curse of diabetes is the likelihood of contracting crippling peripheral neuropathy. Reversing diabetes does not necessarily reverse neuropathy. So far, there is no known cure for this crippling disease.


6 posted on 07/06/2019 2:04:36 PM PDT by 353FMG
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The greatest curse of diabetes is the likelihood of contracting crippling peripheral neuropathy. Reversing diabetes does not necessarily reverse neuropathy. So far, there is no known cure for this crippling disease. Plenty of snakeoil merchants associated with the many “neuropathy centers” though.


7 posted on 07/06/2019 2:08:28 PM PDT by 353FMG
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They'll soon change the "goal" numbers so everyone is guaranteed to be on meds.

Just like they did on BP.

8 posted on 07/06/2019 2:10:41 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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On my last blood test, they put my A1c glucose at 5.8.
My doctor freaked out and gave me a presciption for MetFormin.
I looked up the score on WebMD. Below 6.5 is normal, 6.5-8.0 is prediabetes and over 8 is diabetes.

I plan on tossing the pills.

What are they teaching young doctors now? They seem to panic on everything.


13 posted on 07/06/2019 2:32:22 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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There was an article on Freepers just a few days ago about statins causing diabetes. I MO many of the medicines that are dispensed to us increase
Blood sugar. Read carefully the side effects of each med prescription you take daily.


18 posted on 07/06/2019 3:31:47 PM PDT by Hattie
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My doctor has been amazed about that for years. He thinks I am a freak. Well, I suspect I am a freak, but not for that reason.


19 posted on 07/06/2019 4:00:06 PM PDT by GingisK
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In the last 5 years around the local Watering Hole ... those of us ol Farts that are still around drink Ultra-Lite and talk about Keto (aka No Sugar, Nothing White) diet.

Watched folks lose a foot, then another, then go blind and then go Broke while they spend 3 days a week at the Dialysis Center just months before they die in there 50’s or early 60’s.

Diabetes is rampant and completely Preventable and mostly Reversible with Diet Change.


23 posted on 07/06/2019 5:05:55 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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I wish some cabal of true, honest brainiacs would develop a master “BS Handbook” that was constantly refined, a reference to cut through the BS on various things (like this). There is SO much information these days that it’s almost pointless trying to look for “the truth”.

This thread is helpful for this ONE thing. Thank you. What about the million OTHER things, though? Lol. We’re gonna die before we figure them out!


24 posted on 07/06/2019 5:09:17 PM PDT by avenir
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Many are rejecting that term “prediabetic.” Just having higher-than-normal blood sugar does not mean you will go on to have diabetes. It discourages people from changing their diet, if nothing else.

I had a problem with a medication and stopped taking it. Nothing happened. I felt the same as before.

I decided to drop my other two prescription medications. Nothing happened. I felt the same as before.

I developed a new symptom and went for a checkup. Hadn’t been taking prescription medications for about six months. The doctor was pissed that I hadn’t been taking the medications.

All my tests came out normal. When he called to tell me that, he sounded even more pissed than before.

LOL


26 posted on 07/06/2019 5:44:04 PM PDT by firebrand
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Excerxise


30 posted on 07/06/2019 6:50:21 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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According to my doctor there is no such thing as "prediabetes". You either have it or you do not.

This study pretty much confirms it.

32 posted on 07/06/2019 7:43:05 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Human beings don't behave rationally. We rationalize our behavior.)
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