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.
World Oil Production Facts and Figures. The first graphic shows the growth in oil production from 1965 to 2011. A new global oil production record was set in 2011 at 83.6 million barrels per day. This figure includes production of crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs), which are not indicated separately. (In the U.S., around 25% of NGLs end up as refinery inputs; most of the rest is petrochemical feedstock).