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page to your friends and colleagues. Has your doctor told you
that you have impaired fasting glucose? That means that the
glucose level in your blood, after you haven’t eaten for at
least eight hours, is still higher than 100 milligrams of
glucose per deciliter of blood. In other words, your blood is
too sweet because your insulin is not clearing the sugar out of
your blood very well. You have pre-diabetes. What’s the
difference between pre-diabetes and full-blown diabetes? It’s
one milligram per deciliter: the difference between 125 and 126
milligrams per deciliter. If your blood contains 126 milligrams
of glucose per deciliter, you have diabetes. By that time, so
much sugar is sitting in your blood that it is causing serious
damage. There’s another test you may