I wore a continuous glucose monitor for a month

There are some things you may not want to know about your body. For me, high on that list was seeing firsthand, in real time, how the food I eat affects my blood sugar.

- Aisha Sultan, Tribune News Service

I have a sweet tooth and a deep appreciation for carbs. This may be why my doctor has warned me for the past few years that I'm teetering on the border of “prediabetic.” For years, the medical community has been shifting the standard of what qualifies as prediabetic, widening the net of people who fall in that range. If your fasting blood sugar is between 100 to 125 mg/dL, and your Alc — which indicates the average amount of glucose attached to hemoglobin in your red blood cells over the past two to three months — is 5.78-6.43, welcome to the prediabetic club. There are 98 million American adults here, about 1 in 3 adults.