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the doctor for something else and a routine blood test reveals their disease. Could you be one of them?
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    BLOOD SUGAR BY THE NUMBERS
    According to the American Diabetes Association,the definitions of normal and impaired blood sugar are:
     
    Normal Fasting Blood Sugar (FBS). Although there may be some variation among testing labs, normal FBS ranges from 65 to 99 mg/dL (milligrams per deciliter) after a fast of 8 to 12 hours. The measurement is accurate only if you haven’t eaten for at least 8 hours before your blood is drawn.
    Impaired Fasting Glucose (IFG). A blood glucose level between 100 and 125 mg/dL (5.5 to 6.9 mmol/L [millimoles per liter]) after a fast of at least eight hours.If you have IFG,you have prediabetes. Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT). You have impaired glucose tolerance if two hours after eating a carbohydrate test meal your blood sugar has risen to above 140 mg/dL but stays below 200 mg/dL. If you have impaired glucose tolerance, you have prediabetes, whether or not you also have impaired fasting blood sugar.
    Diabetes. Fasting blood sugar of 126 mg/dL or higher on two readings after fasting for at least eight hours indicates diabetes. An alternative measurement is a postprandial (after a meal) blood sugar of 200 mg/dL or higher two hours after a high-carbohydrate meal on two different days,or similar results at the two-hour point during an oral glucose tolerance test. 9
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    Being diagnosed with high fasting blood sugar is like being told you’re a little bit pregnant—things will become more apparent very soon. That’s what happened with a patient named Donna G. Less than a year passed from the time her doctor told her she had high fasting blood sugar to the time she came to see Dr. Atkins to treat her full- blown Type 2 diabetes. If only she had started on the Atkins program when she was first diagnosed with high blood sugar, she might well never have gone on to that point. As it is, following the program has helped her quite a bit. Her fasting blood sugar over the past several years has always been steady at around 100 mg/dL.
    Current medical guidelines say that if you have any of the risk factors for diabetes, your doctor should regularly check your fasting blood sugar level. But if you’ve been paying attention, you now know that by the time your fasting blood sugar is high, the damage has already started. (We’ll discuss tests to detect blood sugar abnormalities in Chapter 6, Diagnosis: Diabetes.)
    The onward march toward diabetes and steadily worsening health might seem inevitable. Not so! At any point along the way it is possible to stop the progression. The sooner the better, of course, but even if you have reached stage 6 of diabetes, the Atkins Blood Sugar Control Program can help you manage the disease and help you to stave off some of its worst consequences.Please read on—that’s what the rest of this book is all about.
    DO YOU HAVE A BLOOD SUGAR PROBLEM?
    The effects of the blood sugar roller coaster on your health and well-being are fairly predictable. Compare your symptoms to the following list of the most common symptoms of abnormal blood sugar. Score each symptom according to how you experience it:
     
    0 = never
    1 = mild and/or rarely
    2 = moderate and/or up to twice a week
    3 = severe and/or more than twice a week
     

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    Add up each column and then multiply the sum by the number at the top of that column. Now add all the numbers together. Remember, all the answers in the 0 column = 0. If your score is 12 or more, you’re probably experiencing some blood sugar abnormalities. Please see your doctor to explore the issue further, especially if you also have any risk factors for diabetes.
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    A NEW PATH WITHOUT PILLS
    After a 30-year hiatus, Ann McKay has returned to the very same program with which she initially experienced success. It is now helping her restore her health.
     
    I’ve had a serious weight problem all my life. In fact, I did Atkins for the first time