So what does it mean to be pre-diabetic? The people most likely to develop diabetes are those with impaired glucose tolerance or prediabetes. They are more than 1.5 times more likely to develop diabetes in the next five years than people with normal blood glucose levels. The most powerful contributor to developing diabetes is becoming overweight or obese. Diabetes is not caused by eating too much sugar or other carbohydrates. Excess energy from too much fat, sugar and protein alone or in combination will all work the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas much harder. Anytime…