By: Jeff Csatari writing for Eat This, Not That!
6 Drinking Habits Causing Chaos on Your Blood Sugar
Diabetes is often called "the silent disease" because it sneaks up on you. High blood sugar, the precursor to prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, doesn't have outward symptoms. It doesn't hurt.
"That's what's so scary about high blood sugar; you don't feel any different until you reach the point where you need medication," says Molly Wagman, RDN, certified diabetes care, and education specialist and head of clinical operations for 9am.health.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 96 million American adults have prediabetes and 80% of them don't know they have it. That's why screening is so important, and the American Diabetes Association in 2022 lowered its recommended age for screening by 10 years to include all adults age 35 and older.
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