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Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have ''pre-diabetes'' -- blood glucose levels that are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. At least 20.1 million people in the United States, ages 40 to 74, have pre-diabetes. Recent research has shown that some long-term damage to the body, especially the heart and circulatory system, may already be occurring during pre-diabetes. If left untreated, this condition will likely develop into full diabetes within 10 years.
The answer: healthy diet and exercise.
It's a well-known fact that type-2 diabetes usually comes on gradually with weight gains. In metabolic terms, the body can't produce enough insulin or it can't use it effectively leading to elevated blood sugar levels but not high enough to cause diabetes right away.
Until recently, doctors don't know what to do to prevent onset of diabetes for those whose blood sugar levels are already high.
However, in a major study, researchers found that diet, exercise and certain medications can slow or even reverse the progression of pre-diabetes to diabetes. That can prevent diabetes complications such as blindness, kidney disease and amputation.
One big task is identifying the people with pre-diabetes and get them started on a healthy lifestyle.
Interestingly, the Metabolic Diet may provide the answer on the problem of breaking through the vicious cycle of insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is a hallmark in most cases of adult diabetes which results in the inability to use insulin effectively. The insulin dysfunction has the effect of increasing blood glucose level and leads to problems in both fat and carbohydrate metabolism.
The Metabolic Diet maximizes the production and use of the body's Big 3 Hormones (testosterone, growth hormone and insulin) for firming your body and does it naturally. It also shifts the body's metabolism from that of a sugar-burning, fat-producing machine to that of a fat-burning machine. With the body adding muscle tone and simultaneously burning both dietary and stored body fat, a person using the Metabolic Diet can find themselves twice blessed.
One remarkable thing about the Metabolic Diet is that it makes usually reactive hormones work together. For instance, as insulin goes up, growth hormone may decrease. If insulin decreases, growth hormone may increase. The two substances generally don't work together, but they can. If you can increase both substances, you'll get better results shaping your body and keeping it firm than with an increase in one hormone alone.
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Products mentioned in this article:
The Metabolic Diet
The Radical Diet eBook
The Metabolic Diet eBook
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Dr. Di Pasquale is a licensed physician in Ontario, Canada, focusing on Nutrition and Sports Medicine, as well as a world class athlete for over twenty years... 
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