Pre-Diabetes

Lifestyle Changes

This is the good part! Landmark research, including the Diabetes Prevention Program, has shown diabetes can be prevented, even in people at high risk.

Do these two things:

1. Exercise at least 150 minutes a week. Most of the subjects in the DPP walked 30 minutes five days a week.
2. Get to a comfortable body weight, and stay there. The subjects in the DPP lost an average of 7 percent of their weight. For example, a 200-pound person lost 14 pounds, and a 300-pound person lost 21 pounds. This is modest reduction in weight, but it reduced the insulin resistance contributing to the above normal blood sugars.