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Originally Posted by tanyatype1  Hi Panda! That conversion table says that an A1C of 5.5 is "bad"! Am I reading something wrong here? That's crazy! |
Read the text below the chart. The page's author considers the ADA's recommendation of staying below 7 to border on criminal negligence (complete with a statement which can be read as an implicit accusation that the ADA is conspiring with doctors to create more business for the medical industry by increasing the rate of complications) and that you should be keeping your A1c below 5 instead.
Then he goes off into a discussion of his belief that, by keeping your average BGL below 83 and never allowing it to go over 100, you can slow/halt aging. This discussion also includes recommendations that everyone, even non-diabetics, should check their BGL several times a day and inject insulin if it goes too high. (I didn't read closely enough to catch whether "too high" meant 83 or 100 in this context.)
