| I've tested friends who don't have diabetes and 60% of the time they've had readings over 120.
I've also been told (by Diabetes UK) that A1C for 'normal' people should be 7.0 or less, and that actually it's usually very dangerous for people with diabetes to have an AIC less than 6.4 because it means that they will almost always be having a lot of medium to severe hypos.
Maybe it's different for me because I have Type 1, but I've been told by every doctor who's ever worked with me that anything between 72 and 144 is fantastic, and that 180 is the maximum that should be encountered just after a meal.
Snakeye, I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm rather frightened by the disparity between the figures both you and I have been given.
One question for the Americans here - do your doctors recieve any kind of financial incentive for placing people on medication? I only ask because, given the sheer strictness of the diagnosis routine, I'd argue that a lot of people who don't have any geniune health problems could be diagnosed with diabetes because there's an incentive. It sounds to me (from what I've heard elsewhere on the forums) like your doctors are far more zealous in handing out anti-depressants and diabetes medication like they're sweets or something.  | 
