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Early Warning Signs and Tips for Diabetes Prevention
If your fasting blood glucose – also called blood sugar – is between 100 and 125 mg/dl, you have pre-diabetes. If your fasting blood glucose is 126 or more on two occasions, you already have diabetes.
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People who have pre-diabetes tend to develop diabetes within 10 years unless they change how they eat and exercise. They are also more likely to have a heart attack or stroke even if they never get diabetes.

Breastfeeding For 3 Months Helps Prevent Diabetes In Children
Breastfeeding longer than three months can cut a child’s risk of later becoming overweight or obese by more than 40 percent, if the child was born to an overweight mother diagnosed with diabetes during her pregnancy, according to a study published in the May issue of Diabetes Care.

Diabetes soars in Italy
Obesity, sedentary lives lift type 2 cases by 7-10% a year.
A study by the Italian Association of Diabetes Doctors (AMD) revealed the number of registered cases of type 2 diabetes is increasing by 7-10% a year . According to the research, based on data for 121,000 patients gathered at 86 diabetes centres, type 1 diabetes is climbing at a slower rate, 1% per annum.

Heart disease, diabetes plague Africa 
Research commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that heart disease, diabetes and cancer are on the rise in Africa, and they are just as pressing as the more-publicized epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Diabetes raises early death risk
Younger people with Type 2 diabetes are three times more likely to die early than those of the same age without the disease, a study suggests. A study of 264,000 patients in the journal of Diabetic Medicine found those with the disease were twice as likely to die early than those without.

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