What are the tips to keep diabetes at bay?

Diet: Low sugar diet, take your medications regularly, keep your portions low, exercise, go get eyes checked, see your doctor every 3-4 months., ....And keep your hba1c<6.5. Also keep your bmi<25.

Avoid weight gain...: Lose weight, diet- no concentrated sweets exercise-15 min walk daily and monitor sugars periodically and have md follow you periodically.

Metformin: Metformin has been shown to reduce the incidence of diabetes in those prone to it by 40%. Diet and exercise, losing weight still best. But metformin can be an adjunct in helping lose weight, improving lipids, and potentiating weight loss, all by lowering Insulin in pts. With metabolic syndrome!

Avoid sugar: Take a supplement of thiamine (or benfotiamine if you can get it)> dr thornalley has shown that diabetics excrete large amounts of thiamine in urine. Whether this occurs in prediabetes is unknown but it is totally unharmful.