You Are A Borderline Diabetic – Have You Lost Your Mind?
Suppose this, your doctor tells you you are a borderline diabetic. But, don’t worry, he or she says, because many people who have this problem never go on to become a diabetic.
Your doctor asks for some lifestyle changes but goes on to say, that although he would prefer you do something about your borderline diabetic state, but if you just stay where you are at least, then you will be okay. Or, maybe it was your own personal decision to tolerate remaining on the edge of diabetes in return for greater freedom in your lifestyle.
Would there be no penalty in your compromise? Wrong, there would be! But, you knew I was going to say that didn’t you?
If you choose to tolerate the borderline diabetic state hoping it won’t go further you are gambling big time. All sorts of things are going on below your radar. The list of possible problems is long, so let’s just consider one of them.
As long as we are doing this, let’s take the worst: Alzheimer’s. A Swedish group, in a recent study, uncovered the connection between unaddressed borderline diabetes and dementia, or Alzheimer’s.
The odds of you eventually developing a disease like dementia are definitely greater than normal if you ignore the warning the pre-diabetic state brings, and do nothing about it. To be fair, not everyone who remains borderline diabetic ends up with dementia, but staying pre-diabetic is a gamble.
Backing yourself out of borderline diabetes is is troublesome, but infinitely easier than trying to back out of early diabetes. Deeply ingrained diabetes is definitely permanent.
If you are a borderline diabetic does not mean you are risking trouble, it means you ARE in trouble, you have a disease, some researchers are firm on this. There is still time for borderline diabetics to start watching what they eat and exercising.
What would you think if I told you you had cancer? Perhaps something like, “Boy, maybe I won’t last very long, what a crock.”. Told you had diabetes you should say, “Boy, now i’m not going to live as long as I would have otherwise.” Add something more to that, “And, it won’t be as happy a life as it could have been.”
Memento mori, my friend.
Xu W, Qu C, Winbled B, Fratiglioni L. The effect of borderline diabetes on the risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Diabetes. 2007 Jan;56(1):211-6
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