Diabetes Can Be Controlled
To respond to the frenzy on obesity medicines our Healthy Americas Foundation® launched "Diabetes Se Puede Controlar [Diabetes Can Be Controlled] — Community Health Champions."
This free one-hour webinar series available in English and Spanish aims to inform and engage individuals with actionable knowledge to effectively manage their weight and reduce the risk of getting diabetes while supporting those with diabetes to manage it during the upcoming holiday seasons. Spanning essential themes, the webinars demystify diabetes (Seminar 1), champion healthy dietary choices (Seminar 2), reveal exercise benefits (Seminar 3), and offer tangible strategies for controlling the condition (Seminar 4).
Hispanics are more likely to develop prediabetes and type 2 diabetes than non-Hispanics
Prediabetes means your blood glucose level is high but not high enough yet to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. Having prediabetes puts you at higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes, a disease with serious health problems.
You may have prediabetes and be at risk for type 2 diabetes if you are:
About Our Program
Our Let’s Prevent Diabetes Program trained over 40 promotores de salud as Lifestyle Coaches to lead the program’s weekly workshops and launched nearly 330 cohorts that enrolled 4,813 community participants at risk for type 2 diabetes. The average participant lost 5.22% of their body weight, and 55.35% of participants completed the program and reduced their risk of developing type 2 diabetes based on meeting program target metrics (loss of weight, A1c and/or BMI).
The Let’s Prevent Diabetes Program is a direct response to national goals to prevent or delay cases of type 2 diabetes under Healthy People 2020, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s evidence-based recommendations, and the National Diabetes Education Program Strategic Plan. It represented a substantial step forward in reducing diabetes disparities in underserved Hispanic communities and improving our nation’s health and well-being. Funding for the Let’s Prevent Diabetes Program was through a cooperative agreement with CDC (CFDA 93.261).
For additional information, please visit https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/prevention/index.html.