Prediabetes: Is it really a lifestyle disease?
Nutrition Diva
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🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
My guest on the podcast today is Jill Weisenberger. She’s a registered dietitian nutritionist, certified diabetes care and education specialist, and the author of Prediabetes: A Complete Guide, which is now out in a newly updated 2nd edition.
And the timing couldn’t be better because a couple of days after I received the announcement about the release of the updated edition, I got the results of some bloodwork that was done as part of a routine physical. And my fasting blood glucose reading was 101… with a little “H” next to it to indicate that this reading is considered “high.” In fact, a fasting blood glucose level between 100 and 124 meets the diagnostic criteria for prediabetes. So, this topic just got personal for me!
Highlights from our conversation:
- How prediabetes is diagnosed (there’s more to it than just a single test result)
- The importance of putting individual test results into context
- Who is at risk (more people than you might think)
- Why Type 2 diabetes (and prediabetes) are not always or only due to lifestyle choices
- The two main issues that cause high blood sugar in people with diabetes
- Non-dietary strategies for increasing insulin sensitivity
- The three different types of physical activity and how they affect blood sugar metabolism
- The best timing for exercise
- The type of carbohydrates that improve insulin sensitivity
- The role of supplements in managing blood sugar
- Weight-neutral approaches to diabetes care and prevention
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Find Jill across the web:
https://jillweisenberger.com/
https://twitter.com/nutritionjill
https://www.instagram.com/nutritionjill/
https://www.facebook.com/NutritionJill
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, I'm Monica Reinagle, and you're listening to The Nutrition Diva Podcast, |
| 0:09.2 | a show where we take a closer look at nutrition trends and headlines, explain what the latest |
| 0:14.9 | research means for you, and answer your nutrition questions welcome. |
| 0:20.1 | My guest on the podcast today is Jill Weissenberger. |
| 0:23.6 | She's a good friend, she's also a registered dietitian nutritionist, a certified diabetes |
| 0:28.7 | care and education specialist, which will be important for reasons you're about to hear, |
| 0:33.9 | and also the author of pre-diabetes, a complete guide, and let me just say it is a complete |
| 0:40.5 | guide, and it's also just now out in a newly updated second edition. |
| 0:46.8 | Welcome to the podcast Jill, and congratulations on the new edition. |
| 0:49.9 | Thank you, I'm so excited, and I'm glad to be here and be able to chat with you today. |
| 0:54.9 | Well, the timing for this conversation could not be better because just a couple of days after |
| 1:00.6 | I received your note announcing the release of the new edition, I got the results of some |
| 1:05.6 | blood work that had been done as part of a routine physical, and I clicked it open, |
| 1:10.8 | expecting to see nothing but good news, and my fasting blood glucose reading, my blood |
| 1:17.0 | sugar reading was 101, and it had a little h next to it to indicate that this reading is considered |
| 1:24.6 | high, and in fact a fasting blood glucose between 100 and 124 meets the diagnostic criteria |
| 1:33.1 | for pre-diabetes. |
| 1:34.8 | So this topic just got super personal for me, I bet. |
| 1:39.9 | So my fasting blood glucose was just barely over the line that would tip you into that |
| 1:46.9 | category, and it seems a little crazy that 99 is fine, but 101 is pre-diabetic. |
| 1:54.5 | So obviously they've got to put the line somewhere, but this isn't just a light switch that gets |
| 2:00.6 | turned on and off, it's really more of a continuum, isn't it? |
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