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If your doctor said you have “a touch of sugar,” it could mean you have pre-diabetes: a blood-glucose level that’s higher than normal but not yet diabetes. And that’s serious.
The American Diabetes Association warns that some damage to your body — including your heart — may already be under way. “There is no such thing as a touch of sugar that is not harmful,” said Dr. Guenther Boden, chief of the division of Endocrinology at Temple University Hospital.
If you go on to develop full-blown diabetes, you could double or quadruple your risk of dying from heart disease, among other dire consequences.
The good news: At the pre-diabetes stage, it’s possible to prevent Type 2 diabetes by making healthier food choices, losing 7 percent of your body weight and walking briskly for 30 minutes a day, five days a week.
We know you can do it. The big national medical study that proved it, known as the Diabetes Prevention Program, included 155 participants from right here in Philly.
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