Hba1c 42 to 35

KennyA said:

It very clearly says "increased risk". It doesn't say "high risk" . There's a difference - see my earlier post.

Also, if you redo it but this time put in 29 for your waist measurement suddenly you're 0.85, absolutely OK, you'll live forever.

That tells me a couple of things. Firstly, that this ratio calculation isn't really aimed at people with 29.5 inch waists. Secondly, that if a change of only 0.5 inches in waist circumference has such a dramatic impact on your health (I do not believe that) the test is overly sensitive to a minor change - in other words, it's not a test, it's a wake-up if you've been kidding yourself about the weight you've gained. I don't think that applies to you.

So it's not the "belly fat" it's another "might be OK for 75% of people" estimated answer to a general "am I overweight" question - which I'd file alongside BMI and that machine in Boots in terms of accuracy.

I'm still not seeing what's concerning you.

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finzi1966 said:

Exactly - I think by people talking about stress raising blood sugars, in GoWest’s it’s kind of missing the point that their blood sugars are *entirely normal*. Their HbA1c is *entirely normal*. So is their fasting blood sugars, their post meal blood sugars, and their random blood sugars. They do not have diabetes or even prediabetes.

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KennyA said:

I think the American posters on American sites will be making the mistake I outlined above.

Snacking - all depends on what you mean by snack. If you're actually hungry I'd recommend eating a meal, not snacking. Being hungry is hard to mistake.

By "snack" I mean having a couple of almonds, or a couple of olives, or some cheese, or a bit of salami. I'm looking for taste and flavour, or salt, nothing to do with hunger. None of the things I've mentioned have any impact on my BG, particularly not in tiny quantities. For a light lunch type of thing I'd go for a 2g carb roll with ham and cheese, maybe some lettuce, mayo, mustard and tomato. Again, no discernable impact on my BG.

If by snack you mean a doughnut or pastry, you might be OK, I wouldn't.

Unfortunately the media and the official sources have done a very good job in convincing people that eating fat will kill them. It' will take a couple of generations, I guess, before they realise that, if eating fat was bad for us, the human race would have died out tens of thousands of years ago.

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Claudia 1961 said:

Also I finger prick tested while doing a glucose tolerance test. Finder prick tests are capillary blood and show higher readings. The vein blood is the real one to measure .

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