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.
While progress was uneven, by 2000 the threat of extreme hunger subsided for many of the world's people. According to the WFP some statistics are that, Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That's about one in nine people on earth.