welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by Nutritional Weight and Wellness. We are a company

specializing in life-changing nutrition, education, and counseling. Our goal with hosting this podcast

is to give you all solid, science-based nutrition information and practical nutrition

tips so that you can improve your health and well-being. And if you've been listening to us

for a while, you might already know that balancing your blood sugar levels and getting your

fasting blood sugar in the normal healthy range is one of the most important things that you can do

for your future health. We all like to do a deep dive into research, but it does not

take a researcher or a scientist to find information that backs up the seriousness of high

blood sugar levels. In fact, all of you on this February morning could go into Google right now

and just type in health risk of pre-diabetes.

When I did that in preparation for today's show, I had 14 million sources come up.

Did you read them all? I did not. I was just, I wasn't surprised, though. So clearly this is a real

issue in our country, in our world.

We'll introduce ourselves and then we'll get into our topic for today. I'm Kara Karpur.

I'm a licensed nutritionist and certified nutrition specialist. As dietitians and nutritionists,

even with 14 million sources coming up on the negative health consequences that can come about

from pre-diabetes, we really focus on the peer-reviewed scientific literature when we prepare

for our shows.

I found the following on PubMed from the journal Clinical Diabetes.

Recent studies have demonstrated that patients with preiabetes can suffer from coronary artery

disease and diastolic heart failure even before progressing to overt diabetes.

Wow.

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