{"id":13128,"date":"2024-10-30T13:47:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T17:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/?p=13128"},"modified":"2024-10-30T13:47:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T17:47:40","slug":"november-is-diabetes-awareness-month-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/november-is-diabetes-awareness-month-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"November is Diabetes Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is Prediabetes?<\/strong>
\nWe’ve all heard of type 2 diabetes. It’s when blood sugar levels rise because our body can’t properly process sugars in the food we eat. Before type 2 diabetes, there’s usually prediabetes. That’s when sugar (or glucose) levels are higher than normal, but not as high as with type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n

Prediabetes happens when your body’s cells become less sensitive to insulin, the blood-sugar processing hormone made by your pancreas. Insulin resistance may be caused by being overweight. Other factors include not exercising enough, having a family history of the disease,
\nand being older.<\/p>\n

Did you know:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. About 1 in 3 U.S. adults has prediabetes.<\/li>\n
  2. Prediabetes usually has no symptoms. You’ll need a blood test to know for sure.<\/li>\n
  3. Being diagnosed with prediabetes doesn’t mean that you’ll definitely develop type 2 diabetes, particularly if you change your lifestyle.<\/li>\n
  4. Prediabetes can be reversed by eating healthy foods, getting moderate exercise on a regular basis, and taking your medication properly.<\/li>\n
  5. A healthy meal plan for people with prediabetes and diabetes includes plenty of non-starchy vegetables, limited added sugars, whole-grain foods instead of refined grains, and whole foods instead of highly processed foods.<\/li>\n
  6. Sugary drinks, like soda, fruit punch, energy drinks, etc., have been linked to type 2 diabetes. A 12-ounce can of regular soda has the equivalent of 10 teaspoons of sugar. Cut back on these beverages to lower your blood sugar levels.<\/li>\n
  7. Exercise makes your cells more sensitive to insulin, which lowers blood sugar levels and helps to reverse prediabetes. Aim for 150 minutes of moderate exercise each week.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    If you are concerned about prediabetes or diabetes, please contact your primary care provider to discuss changes you can make today to prevent or reverse this disease.<\/p>\n

    Source: American Diabetes Association; National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    What is Prediabetes? We’ve all heard of type 2 diabetes. It’s when blood sugar levels rise because our body can’t properly process sugars in the food we eat. Before type 2 diabetes, there’s usually prediabetes. That’s when sugar (or glucose) levels are higher than normal, but not as high as with type 2 diabetes. Prediabetes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":13129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[637,378],"class_list":["post-13128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicare","tag-diabetes","tag-medicare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-1134340784-1.jpg?fit=724%2C483&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZGa-3pK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13131,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13128\/revisions\/13131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}