Reply #25: I have been reading lately

[Malva Zebrina]

about the lowering of the bar on the diagnosis of diabetes. It seems that what used to be within normal limits on a fasting BG, is no longer normal. A fasting BG of 100, is now considered pre-diabetic whereas it used to be anything over 110 to 140. It may alert the person to be on the lookout as her life progresses, for a rise in that fasting number, but actually, what is really needed is a glucose tolerance test to determine the rate of return to baseline. In normal people who produce insulin, the rate of return after eating a high carbohydrate, high sugar meal is already beginning to come down after two hours, the peak--in a pre-diabetic, one may see a much longer drawn out decline before the return to baseline. So, already if one has a fsting of 100 and is now pre-diabetic--a test is ordered that significantly adds to the costs. There is no long term data on how many people who have a fasting of 100 eventually do develop diabetes. It will take years to record that data.


Seeing that the bar was also lowered on the diagnosis of diabetes from a fasting of 140, to today's 126, causing the numbers of persons diagnosed with diabetes to rise greatly, and the numbers of pills and all of the diagnostic tools, as well as doctor visits, nursing , foot care, and much else, It looks as though diabetes is another big moneymaker for the drug and related medical companies. I know that sounds a little flip, silly and nonsensical, but from what I know, a BG of 126-140 spread is very unlkely to result in any real severe complications, such as kidney or liver problems if one stays within those parameters.

Sadly, I simply do not trust much of any thing coming out of the corporated medical community. :-(

So I am wondering with this 100 fasting BG now lowered if those persons who do develop diabetes, will be in some way held accountable and eventually penalized for letting themselves get diabetes--ie they were overweight and they did not lose weight. Their fault!

I think I strayed off topic, sorry,

If Janklow is not taking insulin, or any of the oral meds for diabetes, he is in little danger of a hypoglycemic episode.