If you are over 40, dark skinned, and are overweight, inactive and eat a lot of junk food, plus you drink a lot of pop every day, then you likely are either a diabetic or about to become one.,it is just a matter of time.

Diabetes is almost predictable with about half of those over 60 soon either with diabetes or pre diabetes, well on the way.

There will be very few over 60 that are overweight, inactive and on a poor diet that are not diabetic. Blacks and Hispanics almost double the rate of lighter complexion folks. This may be due to the fact they require twice the sunlight exposure to obtain adequate vitamin D.

This seems to be almost universal body regulating problem, lack of vitamin D is that very few people, particularly in northern climates get adequate amounts of skin sun exposure, or wash the skin oils off with soap before the three days needed to convert to natural vitamin D.

Here is our graphic tip as to the best time to get sun exposure, and will be particularly helpful in northern climates in the winter. Also remember, suns rays thru glass do NOT make vitamin D.

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You will certainly read here plenty back about getting off drinking food, off of sugar and flour so will say no more here about fixing your diet.

The part about inactive means you are not burning much sugar and likely still eating it at the old active person rate. In addition, inactivity leads to muscle loss and loss of muscle mass means less storage availability to force excess sugar peaks into as a sugar dump. When sugar peaks exceed storage dump capacity you have a high blood sugar problem, called diabetes. It is not a maybe.

Overweight means your body has had sugar peaks it could not dispose of except to make some cells become body fat. Every time a muscle cell is converted to a fat cell you have even less muscle dump, storage room for the next sugar peak and you have an escalating problem.

Once you pass 40 you lose muscle mass at 1% per year and in ten years, you are ten % less ability to store excess sugar peaks, so unless you cut down on the sugar you start to accelerate becoming obese and/or diabetic. It is unlikely if you continue on junk food that you will make it to 60 without becoming one or the other or both diabetic and obese.

As far as once diabetic is concerned, you understand losing some of the weight and therefore are regaining some storage cells for excess sugar dumping, this improves your blood sugar because your regain some of the storage area for to place the surplus. Remember, once converted to a fat cell it no longer accepts floating sugar.

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