What is Prediabetes?
With prediabetes, blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough for a type 2 diabetes diagnosis. Prediabetes raises your risk for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. (CDC 2023)
What is Type 2 diabetes
With type 2 diabetes, your body doesn’t use insulin well and can’t keep blood sugar at normal levels. (CDC 2023)
What is Gestational Diabetes?
Gestational diabetes develops in pregnant women who have never had diabetes. Gestational diabetes usually goes away after your baby is born. However, it increases your risk for type 2 diabetes later in life.(CDC 2023)
Diabetes By the Numbers
In the United States, 96 million adults—more than 1 in 3—have prediabetes.
More than 37 million US adults have diabetes, and 1 in 5 of them don’t know they have it.
Diabetes is the No. 1 cause of kidney failure, lower-limb amputations, and adult blindness.
The Good News
National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP)
There is an evidence-based program that helps individuals who are at risk of developing diabetes, reduce or delay the development of type 2 diabetes. By making easy and affordable lifestyle changes participants lose 5-7% of their body weight AND complete 150 minutes of physical activity a week, reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes by 58%. People over 60 can reduce their risk by 71%.
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Clarise B., DPP Participant-
“My doctor tried to encourage me to do it the year before, but my heart wasn’t ready for it yet. She explained it more the next year. I prayed on it a lot. A year sounded like such a commitment, but I weighed the pros and cons and the pros won by far, so I continued to pray on it. And then I decided to do it. With God’s help and the program’s help, I made it”.
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