It may just sound like a broken record, but there’s a lot of truth to the saying, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Especially when it comes to preventing diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoporosis and obesity. Yet there are far too few individuals in Dallas, Houston and elsewhere in Texas who take that well-worn advice to heart. Unfortunately, too many individuals are eventually diagnosed with one or more of these life-threatening conditions.
Health experts have identified four “prediseases” in which blood sugar or blood pressure is a little high, bones are beginning to thin or the scale keeps creeping up. And the experts have issued recommendations for treatment, even labeling the conditions as diseases in their own right, as with prediabetes, osteopenia, obesity and prehypertension.
Thankfully, identifying prediseases and tackling them before they become full-blown conditions is the best way to protect your long-term health. Here’s what you need to know about these four prediseases.
Prediabetes
A shocking 54 million American adults have blood glucose that’s higher than normal, but not high enough to be diabetes, putting them at greater risk for developing type-2 diabetes and heart disease.
How to Identify: A fasting blood glucose of 100 to 125 […]

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