A diagnosis of pre-diabetes indicates that your blood sugar levels are 100-125 milligrams per deciliter via the fasting plasma glucose test (people with diabetes have blood sugar levels of 126 mg/dL or more). This means that you’re likely to develop type 2 diabetes within 10 years unless you adopt a healthier lifestyle.

You may always be inching toward the edge, but Type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle disease: You can always watch where you’re stepping. By losing a mere 7 percent of your body weight by using body fat weight scales, avoiding added simple sugars by taking  sugar free recipes for diabetics , added syrups, any grain but 100 percent whole grains, saturated and trans fats and exercising only 150 minutes a week, you can bring your blood-sugar levels back to normal. If you’re normal, you’re, well, normal. You technically don’t have prediabetes, though you’ll always have the genes for it and will be at risk. But you’ll never have to have the disease or its consequences. It is important to know if you have prediabetes, because research has shown that some long-term complications associated with diabetes – such as heart disease and nerve damage – may begin during prediabetes (more…)