What is wrong if you have elevated sugar level, but don't have diabetes?

The person is over 45, male, African American and Native Indian. Their sugar level have been elevated for a period of time, but have been told they don't have diabetes. How should his diet change?

There are many things he can do to feel better.

He can exercise on a regular basis, understand how foods can affect him, medications (but a doctor would have to prescribe them), and natural supplements to fill in nutritional gaps.

Some great supplements for balancing sugar are cinnamon, alpha lipoic acid, fenugreek and the list could go on. I will give you a website that will help explain these are more information on diabetes.

If your blood sugar levels are elevated for long periods of time it can make your body age much quicker, so it is very important to keep your levels in a normal range.

Here is the website.

Good luck to you.

He should change his doctor. The doctor should be concerned about the elevated sugar levels, and should have given him a nutritional sheet with a diet on it already. I am very surprised that the doctor has said that he doesn't have diabetes. The definition of diabetes mellitus is elevated blood sugar.

Basically, the patient should avoid simple carbohydrates, eat complex carbs, quit drinking non-diet sodas, restrict diet sodas (they give the body the wrong signals, apparently), eat lean protein, restrict fats and oils, and eat lots of raw non-starchy veggies. Some people find that taking Metamucil or similar fiber therapy is helpful, when taken half an hour before eating. Start with just one dose before the last meal (usually dinner), and then add a dose before the first meal, and then a dose before the middle meal.

If the patient usually eats just once a day, he needs to readjust his habits to eat several times a day. The ideal is five or six meals and snacks throughout the day, but that's usually impractical if one has any sort of a life.

The patient needs to exercise for at least half an hour three times a week. This needs to be aerobic exercise. Walking or swimming is excellent for this purpose. Strength (weights) training is good, but it's not aerobic.

African Americans and Native Americans are both at higher risk for diabetes than Caucasians.

He needs a new doctor. Unless there is a definite cause of high blood sugar (prescription drugs, injury, surgery, etc) then high blood sugar IS diabetic.

Africans of all type (not just African Americans) tend to suffer from diabetes more than their Caucasian counterparts. Therefore, it is even MORE likely that he IS diabetic.

The NEW doctor needs to do a test called A1C. This test is State-of-the-Art for diabetes testing. If the A1C test comes back high, it is almost certain that the patient is diabetic.

No matter WHAT the cause of high blood sugars, the patient MUST stop eating sugar and products that contain sugar (colas, energy drinks, sweet rolls, ice cream, cake, cookies, puddings, etc) and needs to make a serious cutback in the amount of starches (carbs) they eat. That means less bread, pasta, rice, corn, and potatoes. (breads also include things like pizza dough).

Even if the patient is NOT diabetic, the high blood sugar will have the same effects -- strokes, heart attacks, kidney failure, blindness, sexual problems, amputation, and eventually an early death.

Is he taking any medications that are known to raise blood glucose levels even in non diabetics? There are quite a few medications that will do this, so even though he may not be diabetic, he should be carefully monitored.

It prob means you have pre-diabetes so exercise and eat better.

Lose the sugar.

He needs a second opinion...

He needs to see a new Dr.