Diagnosing Diabetes

Series Summary

Diabetes is a disease characterized by the body’s inability to absorb glucose concentrated in the blood. This is a result of low insulin or the body’s resistance to the effects of insulin. Symptoms include increased thirst and urine production as well as blurred vision. Water is not properly absorbed by the kidney, which produces an excess of urine. Other symptoms may include weight loss (in spite of normal eating habits) and chronic fatigue. If not kept in check, diabetes can lead to high blood pressure and thus cardiovascular disease. But with careful monitoring and proper guidelines, people can continue to live full lives.

In this free video series, learn more about diabetes. Currently, there are more individuals that have this condition than ever before in history. Most of this is due to poor diet and nutrition. However, with a change in lifestyle, you can actually REVERSE type II diabetes. With our expert nutritionist, , you can learn more about this disease. Learn how to diagnose diabetes. Also, learn the difference between type I and type II diabetes. Learn how to identify someone with low or high blood sugar, and learn how to current insulin regimens on the market. If you are curious how fat and exercise effect diabetes, learn this as well. So, take a moment, and learn about diabetes today.

Video Transcript

"Okay, there are several ways that we diagnose diabetes, but the primary way that we diagnose diabetes is we look at the fasting blood sugar and what that is, is that's the blood sugar that the doctor may take before you've eaten anything early in the morning. And when the fasting blood sugar is one twenty six or more, that is usually considered diabetes if it has been found to be that high on two occasions. Now, there are some other ways to diagnose diabetes. Another way is to look at the results of a glucose tolerance test. That's when they've given you a sugar solution; about a hundred grams of sugar and they have you drink that solution and check your sugar every hour for two to three hours. If your sugar is over two hundred in the second hour of that test, that can be considered diabetes even if the blood sugar was under one twenty six fasting and the reason is because it's telling us that you cannot handle that kind of sugar challenge. The third way we diagnose diabetes is looking at a number called the hemoglobin A1C. The hemoglobin A1C is an indication of how much sugar has been attached to the hemoglobin in your bloodstream. Everyone has some sugar attaches; that attaches to hemoglobin and the normal is considered four to five point five percent. Five point five percent to six is considered slightly elevated and over six is classified as diabetes."