A normal A1C level is below 5.7 percent; 6.5 percent or above indicates diabetes; 5.7 to 6.4 percent is prediabetes. To monitor your overall glucose control, diabetics should have an A1C at least twice a year. Anyone who has had diabetes for any length of time knows that A1C tests havenât been reliable until recently.
Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year â approximately 1.3 billion tonnes â gets lost or wasted. Food losses and waste amounts to roughly US$ 680 billion in industrialized countries and US$ 310 billion in developing countries.
Current World Total Coffee Consumption: 1.3 Kilograms per person per year (7,358,897 metric tons) World consumption continued on an upward trend despite the economic downturn and was estimated at around 130 million bags (1 bag = 60 kilogram) in coffee year 2008/09 compared to 127.2 million bags in 2007/08.