Cycle of Health
Medical Student Minute | Prediabetes
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Simple lifestyle changes can help prevent or reverse prediabetes before it becomes type 2 diabetes.
On the next Medical Student Minute, Olivia Laniak explains how simple lifestyle changes can help prevent—or even reverse—prediabetes before it becomes type 2 diabetes.
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Cycle of Health is a local public television program presented by WCNY
Cycle of Health
Medical Student Minute | Prediabetes
Special | 1m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
On the next Medical Student Minute, Olivia Laniak explains how simple lifestyle changes can help prevent—or even reverse—prediabetes before it becomes type 2 diabetes.
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Hi.
I'm medical student Olivia maniac with a very disturbing fact.
More than 1 in 3 of us have prediabetes, a condition in which our blood sugar is elevated and on its way to qualify as type two diabetes and type two diabetes.
Our body stops responding to insulin, a hormone that helps store sugar for energy.
Type two diabete greatly increases health risks like stroke, heart attack, and kidney failure.
So how to prevent or even reverse prediabetes?
Simple daily exercise and a healthy diet 30 plus minutes of moderate daily movement like brisk walking combined with a healthy diet such as the Mediterranean diet, lowers blood sugar by reversing prediabetes, our risk of developing type two diabetes is cut in half.
I'm Olivia mania with my medical student minute.
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