Lost Your Mind? If You Are A Borderline Diabetic, Are You Ignoring It?
Suppose your doctor informs you that you are a borderline diabetic. And, suppose he or she says that you should not worry because many of those with this problem never go on to become a diabetic.
What if the doctor continued his thoughts thus, “I would prefer you do something about your borderline diabetic condition, but at least if you just stay where you are you are safe. Or, maybe it wasn’t your doctor maybe it was you who decided to tolerate pre-diabetes in return for a greater freedom in your lifestyle.
Wrong choice! You knew I was going to say that didn’t you? There are penalties for this compromise?
Bad, bad thing could go on right under your nose and you wouldn’t know it, you choose to accept the borderline diabetic state as is. There are numerous problems that can develop around this state, but let’s just take one to consider.
As long as we are doing this, let’s take the worst: Alzheimer’s. A Swedish group, in a recent study, uncovered the connection between unaddressed borderline diabetes and dementia, or Alzheimer’s.
Once again, not everyone who choses to remain borderline diabetic eventually ends up with dementia, but the odds are greater than if you accepted the warning, and did something about it.
Is taking the trouble to reverse your health back to normal worth it? Backing yourself out of borderline diabetes is infinitely easier than trying to back yourself out of early diabetes. You can never reverse yourself out of deeply ingrained diabetes.
You are not just heading for trouble if you become a borderline diabetic, you ARE in trouble, you have a disease. Some researchers are convinced of this. Start watching what you eat and exercising as a good faith first effort
If I told you you had cancer you might suddenly think, “Boy, maybe I won’t last very long, that’s a crock.”. Hearing you have diabetes should make you say, “Boy, now i’m not going to live as long as I would have otherwise.” And, add one addendum to that, “And, it won’t be as happy a life as it could have been.”
Just a little memento mori.
Xu W, Qu C, Winbled B, Fratiglioni L. The effect of borderline diabetes on the risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Diabetes. 2007 Jan;56(1):211-6
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