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I have a couple of questions for you this morning.

Did you receive your blood sugar numbers at your last clinic visit?

And if you did, are you concerned?

Are you worried about having either pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes?

84 million or 1 out of 3 Americans have pre-diabetes

and 30 million people in the United States or 1 out of 4 people are diabetic.

Wow.

That's amazing, isn't it?

Today, our discussion is all about pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes.

I am Joanne Wrightout, and our co-host, Brittany Vincent, is joining me in this discussion today.

We are both registered and licensed dietitians, and every day we

teach people what to eat, what not to eat, to prevent diabetes, and type 2 diabetes.

Good morning. Good morning, Brittany. To prevent future health problems, it is so important to maintain normal glucose or blood sugar numbers.

And many of you may be wondering what are normal blood sugar numbers?

Well, pre-diabetes is defined as having a fasting blood sugar of 100 to 125 or a hemoglobin A1C of 5.7 to 6.4.

And an A1C might not be something that you get checked regularly.

And that is actually an eight to 12 week measurement of your average blood sugar.

Right.

And that's considered actually a more reliable number.

So what are your blood sugar or blood glucose numbers?

Are they in the normal range of 80 to 100?

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