96 million American adults — more than 1 out of 3 — have prediabetes
More than 8 in 10 adults with prediabetes don’t know they have it!
With prediabetes your blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not high enough yet to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. What if you could prevent or delay the onset of Type 2 diabetes? If you have prediabetes, now is the time to make a lifestyle change because prediabetes increases your risk of
- Type 2 diabetes
- Heart disease
- Stroke
If you ignore prediabetes, your risk for type 2 diabetes goes up and increases your risk for serious health complications:
- Blindness
- Kidney failure
- Heart disease
- Stroke
- Loss of toes, feet, or legs
The good news is that you can prevent or delay type 2 diabetes through the CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program.
The lifestyle change program is proven to help prevent or delay type 2 diabetes and is based on research that showed:
- weight loss of 5 to 7% of body weight achieved by reducing calories and increasing physical activity to at least 150 minutes per week resulted in a 58% lower incidence of type 2 diabetes
- for people 60 and older, the program reduced the incidence of type 2 diabetes by 71%
- after 10 years, lifestyle change program participants had a 34% lower incidence of type 2 diabetes
The lifestyle change program provides:
- a trained lifestyle coach
- CDC-approved curriculum
- group support
- a full year of in-person/online meetings
You will learn to make achievable and realistic lifestyle changes:
- eat healthy
- incorporate physical activity into their daily routine
- manage stress
- solve problems that get in the way of healthy changes
Are you ready to make a change and become more healthy? Contact:
Charlotte Gerrard
Gallatin Health Department
615-206-1100 ext 20121
