When blood sugar levels are high but not high enough to be classified as diabetes, the condition is known as prediabetes. Fortunately, developing diabetes from prediabetes is not inescapable. You can take a variety of steps to lower your chance of developing diabetes.

Start with these first six suggestions:

1. Reduce your intake of sugar and refined carbs. Consuming foods heavy in refined carbohydrates and sugar raises insulin and blood sugar levels, which may eventually cause diabetes. Several morning cereals, white bread, and potatoes are examples of refined carbs. Limit your intake of sugar and go for complex carbohydrates like whole grains, vegetables, and oats.

2. If you are currently a tobacco user, stop. Insulin resistance brought on by smoking can result in type 2 diabetes. It has been demonstrated that quitting over time lowers this risk of type 2 diabetes.

3. Don’t eat too much. Reducing insulin and blood sugar levels as well as the risk of developing diabetes can be achieved by avoiding big meal sizes. It has been demonstrated that eating a lot of food at once raises blood sugar and insulin levels in diabetics at risk.

4. Target 30. Try to be purposefully active five days a week for 30 minutes by walking, dancing, lifting weights, or swimming. If you engage in little to no physical activity and spend the majority of your day sitting down, then you live a sedentary lifestyle, it’s time to start exercising.

5. Ingest water. By substituting water for other beverages, you may be able to better manage your blood sugar and insulin levels and lower your risk of developing diabetes. You can avoid consuming alcoholic beverages that are loaded with sugar, preservatives, and other unnecessary chemicals by drinking water the majority of the time.

6. Ingest fiber. Getting enough fiber is good for your digestive system and for controlling your weight. Each meal should contain a good dose of fiber to help minimize blood sugar and insulin surges, which may lower your chance of getting diabetes.

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