Am I at any risk of getting diabetes?

Today my dad made me take a glucose reading with his strip blood reader thing. I am a very healthy 16 year old male who is, and I dont mean to brag, in tip-top shape. I am 5’9, and weigh 160 pounds approx. and max bench 225. I run track and play football, and my 40 time is a 4.6. Even with those numbers though, I do find that my stamina fails me sometimes while playing sports, and I can feel tired just a little after starting. I never eat junk food, and when I say that I mean rarely ever. I do chew sugar-free, (with small amounts of sugar alcohol) gum almost religiously, and I do drink a lot of water (on some days up to 7 to 8 water bottles.) Anyways, my glucose reading was a very high 151, and now my family is worried about me. I love to eat fruit by the way, every day. Could the fact that I had eaten a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch twenty minutes before have been a reason? Please help me because these readings almost seem unbelievable…

Eating a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch (yum) will definitely raise your blood sugar whether you are diabetic or not. The guidelines for diabetics to test there blood sugars are when they first get up(fasting), before a meal if they are trying to find out how particular foods affect them, 2 hours after a meal (blood sugar reading should be 170 or under), before bed, sometime during the night and then begin again with fasting blood sugar readings. Fasting sugars should be 90-110 in normal people and in diabetics whose sugars are properly controlled. The other readings are for informational purposes mostly when someone is already a diabetic and are looking to find out how well their diet is working. So, bottom line is unless your fasting blood sugars are consistenly over 110, then you really don’t have anything to worry about. If diabetes runs in your family, then it would be wise for you to watch your diet, your weight and keep on an exercise program for prevention. If you begin to show symptoms of diabetes, like weight gain or loss, fatigue, excessive urination, excessive thirst, then a trip to your doctor and a glucose tolerance test would be in order. There is some evidence that if you are pre-diabetic with unstable blood sugars, your doctor can prescribe Metformin and it can help prevent you from developing full blown diabetes if it is given in the early stages. Hope this helps.
Carole

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