Thank God there is a Grace Period. If you have been like me, you have been told a time or two that your insurance is now in the Grace period. I was thinking there is a grace period in medicine also.

The other day I was talking to a man about a medical problem and he began to tell me all of the reasons why his lifestyle was a mess. I had already told him that he was a pre-diabetic several weeks ago. He did not look like a man who had taken the information he was given seriously. He had no obvious signs or symptoms of diabetes and was in what I call the "Grace Period" of diabetes. Grace periods can be long or they can be short and, if you are unlucky, there is no grace period. If you have been told that you have pre- diabetes, you are on a path regarding your health where diabetes is the next stop. You should use that time to educate yourself about the changes that you will have to make in your life and begin making them. Risk factors for pre-diabetes are family history, obesity, a history of inactivity, and a history of smoking. When the grace period is over, it's over.

I am Dr. Thaddeus John Bell, Closing the Gap in Health Care.

Bell Update Chapter 2 Volume 15
Copyright April 2007

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