Hello there, I'm Monica Reinagle, and you're listening to The Nutrition Diva Podcast,

a show where we take a closer look at nutrition trends and headlines, explain what the latest

research means for you, and answer your nutrition questions welcome.

My guest on the podcast today is Jill Weissenberger.

She's a good friend, she's also a registered dietitian nutritionist, a certified diabetes

care and education specialist, which will be important for reasons you're about to hear,

and also the author of pre-diabetes, a complete guide, and let me just say it is a complete

guide, and it's also just now out in a newly updated second edition.

Welcome to the podcast Jill, and congratulations on the new edition.

Thank you, I'm so excited, and I'm glad to be here and be able to chat with you today.

Well, the timing for this conversation could not be better because just a couple of days after

I received your note announcing the release of the new edition, I got the results of some

blood work that had been done as part of a routine physical, and I clicked it open,

expecting to see nothing but good news, and my fasting blood glucose reading, my blood

sugar reading was 101, and it had a little h next to it to indicate that this reading is considered

high, and in fact a fasting blood glucose between 100 and 124 meets the diagnostic criteria

for pre-diabetes.

So this topic just got super personal for me, I bet.

So my fasting blood glucose was just barely over the line that would tip you into that

category, and it seems a little crazy that 99 is fine, but 101 is pre-diabetic.

So obviously they've got to put the line somewhere, but this isn't just a light switch that gets

turned on and off, it's really more of a continuum, isn't it?

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