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When your feet hurt, it's hard to walk, let alone exercise. Even standing can be agony. What can you do to keep your feet healthy? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden. How many steps do you take every day? Experts encourage us to aim for 10,000 steps.

The average American takes around 5,000 steps daily, way less than people in many other countries.

Even 5,000 steps will be hard if your feet hurt.

Have you ever suffered from plantar fasciaitis?

What about Bunions, persitis, tendinitis, bone spurs, or a sprained ankle?

Is there anything you can do to prevent such problems?

Coming up on the people's pharmacy,

we answer your questions about how to keep your feet happy and healthy.

First, the news.

In The People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, the American College of Physicians has just issued

guidelines that other medical groups find surprising, perhaps even alarming. The recommendation is for a measure of blood

sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. The H.B. A1C, also called glycosylated hemoglobin, is a way of telling how high blood sugar has been over the

past several months and it's considered a good marker of diabetes control.

The new guidelines call for doctors to personalize treatment for their patients with type 2 diabetes and to aim for H.B. A1C levels between 7 and 8 percent.

It's that number that has shocked endocrinologists who specialize in treating diabetes.

They believe that the HBA 1C target should be substantially lower at 6.5%.

The new guidelines leave patients caught in the middle of a feud

between highly respected medical organizations. Inadequate treatment leaves

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