Prediabetic! Are You Pre-Diseased Or Tricked-And-Treated?
How to navigate the gulf between the scaremongering and the science
What is new?
The ADA’s war on ‘prediabetes’ is profitable for pharma, but it is questionable medicine to many doctors and researchers.
Why it matters
The pharma-sponsored American Diabetes Association (ADA) labels one in every three U.S. adults ‘prediabetic’. Most of them will never develop the disease, and those who do could easily avoid it without the industry’s “help”.
What you can do about it
This post’s three takeaways will enable you to gauge your true risk, make informed decisions, and maximize your chances of never developing diabetes or regressing it if you have it.
Look for the money
In 2001, the world was in dire need of a new chronic condition that requires medicalization. At least, that’s how the drug industry saw it. Type 2 diabetes already affected one in five US adults. But how about those whose blood sugar levels were not quite in the diabetic zone yet? Their elevated glucose levels carried the labels impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), depending on which glucose…
