Support to Help You Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

"Get all the support you need to make lasting changes. When you join CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) lifestyle change program, you can lower your risk for type 2 diabetes, improve your health, and build healthy habits that last a lifetime.

If you have prediabetes, you’re not alone. In fact, you’re one of 88 million US adults with this condition, which raises your risk for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.

There is good news, though. Even if you’re at high risk, you can prevent or delay type 2 diabetes with proven lifestyle changes. Knowing you have prediabetes means you can do something about it.

Not sure if you have prediabetes? Take the 1-minute prediabetes risk test. If your score shows your risk is high, you may be able to join a lifestyle change program. Your doctor can confirm your results with a simple blood test.

Cut Your Risk in Half

If you think you have to make huge changes to make a difference, you may be relieved to know that two key things can cut your risk of developing type 2 diabetes in half:

• Losing just 5% to 7% of your body weight.
• Getting 150 minutes of moderate physical activity per week.

If you’re 60 years or older, losing weight and increasing your physical activity can reduce your risk even more!

What does this really mean? If you weigh 200 pounds, you would aim to lose 10 to 14 pounds and be physically active 5 days a week for 30 minutes. This can make a big difference in preventing type 2 diabetes.

Learn how to do this and make lasting changes with CDC’s National DPP lifestyle change program..."

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The Surprising Truth About Prediabetes

"It’s real. It’s common. And most importantly, it’s reversible. You can prevent or delay prediabetes from developing into type 2 diabetes with simple, proven lifestyle changes.

Amazing but true: approximately 88 million American adults—1 in 3—have prediabetes. What’s more, 90% of people with prediabetes don’t know they have it. Could this be you? Read on to find out the facts and what you can do to stay healthy.

Prediabetes Is a Big Deal

Don’t let the “pre” fool you—prediabetes is a serious health condition where blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough yet to be diagnosed as diabetes. Prediabetes puts you at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.
 

Prediabetes Flies Under the Radar

You can have prediabetes for years but have no clear symptoms, so it often goes undetected until serious health problems show up. That’s why it’s important to talk to your doctor about getting your blood sugar tested if you have any of the risk factors for prediabetes, which include:

• Being overweight
• Being 45 years or older
• Having a parent, brother, or sister with type 2 diabetes
• Being physically active less than 3 times a week
• Ever having gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy) or giving birth to a baby who weighed more than 9 pounds

Race and ethnicity are also a factor: African Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans, American Indians, Pacific Islanders, and some Asian Americans are at higher risk.."
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Prediabetes: You Could Be That 1 in 3

"The numbers are in, but what do they mean? Here’s how our latest PSAs are helping people see themselves in a really important number and take action to learn their prediabetes risk.

More than 84 million. That’s how many American adults have prediabetes, and 90% of them don’t know they have it.

Statistics like these are a little hard to wrap your head around. You might be 1 in 84 million. What does that even mean?

That same fact put another way: “1 in 3 US adults.” It could be you, your favorite brother, or your other brother who has prediabetes. You, your boss, your boss’s boss. When you can see yourself and the people you know in the stats, you get it in a whole new way.

That’s the thinking behind Phase 3 of CDC’s award-winning Prediabetes Awareness Campaign. These latest public service announcements (PSAs) aim to change how people think about prediabetes – maybe even get them to think about it for the first time – by making it personal.

The PSAs feature an average guy along with two different people in various parts of his life, from work to the barbershop to a family dinner. The message for viewers: You or some of the people you know could be that 1 in 3..."
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Want people to take prediabetes seriously? Make them laugh.

"In January 2016, the first-ever national campaign to raise awareness about prediabetes launched on TV, radio, print, and digital media. A lot of people thought it was funny. But that was a good thing.

The problem is clear: 86 million US adults have prediabetes, and 90% of them don’t know they have it. With prediabetes, blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough yet to be diagnosed as diabetes. Prediabetes comes with long-term risks to health, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, but there usually aren’t any noticeable symptoms.

So how do you get millions of people to take prediabetes seriously enough—and personally enough—to find out if they may have it?

CDC’s answer: partner with the Ad Council, American Diabetes Association, and American Medical Association to develop a public service advertising (PSA) prediabetes awareness campaign. Reach out to millions at risk and motivate them to take the first step—and take a 1-minute prediabetes risk test.."
Prediabetes

Want people to take prediabetes seriously? Make them laugh.

"In January 2016, the first-ever national campaign to raise awareness about prediabetes launched on TV, radio, print, and digital media. A lot of people thought it was funny. But that was a good thing.

The problem is clear: 86 million US adults have prediabetes, and 90% of them don’t know they have it. With prediabetes, blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough yet to be diagnosed as diabetes. Prediabetes comes with long-term risks to health, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, but there usually aren’t any noticeable symptoms..."
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