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Regular physical activity is an important part of managing diabetes or dealing with prediabetes. Find what you need to know, from getting started to maintaining momentum.

All of the signs were there: excessive thirst, rapid weight loss, and a bone-deep exhaustion that couldn't be explained. At the same time, however, I was newly married, living in a new city, and focused on wrapping up my senior year of college. Like many twenty-somethings, I didn't have great health insurance. Eventually, I was spending more time asleep than awake. I felt like a shell of myself—and at less than 100 pounds, I didn't look like myself anymore. While my symptoms grew increasingly harder to ignore, I resisted the expensive doctor's visit until it was almost too late. After months

I am 31 years old, living in Omaha, Nebraska. For most of my adult life, I’ve been a bigger guy. I struggled through high school and college—gaining weight, not making conscious food choices, never seeing the inside of a gym, and not really caring. I sadly never considered how likely it was to affect my future. I have a severe family history of diabetes and have watched many close relatives suffer from this silent disease. Genetically, I was extremely predisposed to develop it myself. For years I watched my mother endure eye injections, a quadruple bypass, neuropathy, and constant blood sugar

People with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) may significantly lower their risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and microvascular disease by delaying the onset of type 2 diabetes (T2D) by six years or more, or by returning to a normal level of glucose tolerance altogether, according to the study, “Early Progression to Diabetes or Regression to Normal Glucose Tolerance Among People with Impaired Glucose Tolerance Affects Long-Term Outcomes: Thirty-Year Follow-Up of Da Qing Diabetes Prevention Study,” presented today at the American Diabetes Association’s® (ADA’s) 79th Scientific Sessions® at