(Long Island, NY) Type 2 Diabetes affects millions and can be prevented. Your community hospital is hosting a program to help you make simple lifestyle changes that can have a dramatic affect and reduce your risk. The Eastern Long Island Hospital Diabetes Prevention Program begins Wednesday, November 6, 2013 from 5 pm to 6 pm at the Southold Free Library Community Room and continues for 16 weeks.
Prediabetes is a serious health condition that increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Approximately 79 million Americans, 35% of adults aged 20 years and older, have prediabetes. Half of all Americans aged 65 years and older have prediabetes. Without lifestyle changes to improve their health, 15% to 30% of people with prediabetes will develop type 2 diabetes within 5 years. The Pre-Diabetes Program is for those to who do not currently have a diabetic diagnosis, but are at risk for type 2 diabetes.
Is there diabetes in your family? Are you at risk? A conversation with your phyiscian and some basic blood work can help determine if you are trending towards type 2 diabetes. Adults between the age of 45-65 are generally at higher risk for type 2 diabetes and may have other risk factors. To find out if you are at risk, take the test at: http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes.
During the course of 16 weeks, you are part of a group that meets with a trained lifestyle coach. Meeting once a week for one hour, you learn how to improve food choices, increase physical activity and gain coping skills to help you maintain your ideal weight and a healthy lifestyle. Modest behavior changes such as increasing physical activitiy or making food modifications can help you work towards the program goal of a 5-7% reduction in body weight.
Once the 16 week program is complete, the group meets once a month for six months. The follow up program is designed to keep eveyone on track and to ensure they are making the best use of all the tools the program taught them.
This group setting gives participants the support they need to be successful. Registration is limited to 15 people. If you are interested in registering for the 16-week Diabetes Prevention Program beginning November 6, 2013, please call Juliet Frodella 631.477.5425
EASTERN LONG ISLAND HOSPITAL 201 Manor Place, Greenport, NY 11944 (631) 477-1000 FAX 477-8218
