What is pre-diabetes?
Pre diabetes basically means you have too much sugar in your blood, but not enough to classify as diabetes. This number is somewhat arbitrary, and as silly as it sounds, it’s possible to have pre diabetes or diabetes in the USA but not in Canada. These countries use a different cut off point. They also use different units to measure your blood sugar. We’ll use the American standard here. If your FBS (fasting blood sugar) levels are between 100 and 125 mg/dl (5.6 and 6.9 mmol/L) you are considered to have prediabetes. Anything over that is considered full blown diabetes. This means that your body isn’t responding to insulin as well as it should. Unchecked, this can easily lead to diabetes. A pre diabetic FBS reading is also called “Impaired fasting glucose” (IFG). We’ll discuss the other test in the next section. Although it doesn’t sound like a big deal, it is. Over time, this high fasting blood sugar level can cause major health problems including damaging the heart and circulatory sy
