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One of the most difficult jobs of a health educator is to get it clear in the minds of people that there is a need for aggressive treatment of pre-diabetes or early diabetes to avoid the eventual use of insulin. Why is insulin so scary? Because insulin and weight gain are a reality.

California has more than 4 times as many fast-food joints and corner convenience stores than grocery stores and markets – does it surprise you? Of course not. If you are like me you are eagerly looking forward to the ones you’ve missed as do most of those with pre-diabetes.

You already know you have pre-diabetes, we’ll just assume you have confirmed it. Anyway, it’s not important whether you have been this way a while or just came upon it. The point is, you must make a decision as to whether you will ignore it, or whether you will deal with it now.

You would be classified as pre-hypertensive with a consistent blood pressure of between 120 and 139 on the systolic side, and a reading consistantly above 80 on the diastolic side.

A pre-diabetic generally means a person has an elevated blood sugar reading, but the level has not yet exceeded the minimum necessary to be declared a diabetic. Surprisingly, blood sugar levels in this group can fluctuate with environmental influences.

Diabetes is bad enough but the treatment can be almost worse. Pre-diabetics and early diabetics often fail to realize that insulin, the primary treatment for diabetes, can be difficult, thus the urgent need to find ways to stop the progression of the diabetic state early, when its much more likely that future insulin and weight gain will be avoided.

Depression as a result of diabetes is accepted. An undiagnosed diabetic is obviously just as susceptible, except that he, or she, doesn’t have awareness of being diabetic, and therefore equally unaware of the possible cause as well as a possible treatment for depression. Pre-diabetics may also be vulnerable, but this has not been confirmed.

Pre, means before something, and pre-diabetes means what is happening prior to the time you get diabetes. And, of course, we are speaking of type two diabetes, the most prevalent type. This is the time when your blood sugar is above normal, but not yet on the level of a diabetic. This would be the time when you would expect symptoms of pre-diabetes.

Since the internet started up there has always been a lot of chatter on the internet about the value of using cinnamon for diabetes to control insulin insensitivity, or high blood sugar.

A new phrase has struck a different cord in me lately if you don’t exercise your body will turn rancid. Exaggeration? Not as much as you might think. Much is known now about why there is a steady deterioration in tissue health if we don’t exercise. Sports and exercise are compatible.