Preventing Diabetes

Learning outcomes:

The learning objectives of this lesson is to:

• Identify different ways to prevent diabetes.

Introduction

Living with diabetes can be quite a challenge but like most

things in anyone’s life, it can be manageable if we have

discipline and self-control.

Depending on what type of diabetes a person has, there

needs to be a lot of things to constantly remember. The food

we eat and the restrictions that need to be imposed on one’s

self should always be considered by a person with diabetes.

Ways to prevent Diabetes

• Healthy diet:

What, when and how much you eat plays an important role in

regulating how well your body manages blood sugar level.

Ways to prevent Diabetes• Exercise

regular exercise helps your body lower blood sugar, promote

weight loss, reduce stress and enhance overall fitness.

Ways to prevent Diabetes

• Education:

All people with diabetes need to learn about their condition

in order to make healthy lifestyle choices and manage their

diabetes.

Ways to prevent Diabetes

• Lifestyle management

Learning to reduce stress levels in day-to-day life can help

people with diabetes better manage their disease.

Ways to prevent Diabetes

• Healthy weight:

Maintaining a healthy weight is especially important in the

control of type 2 Diabetes.

Ways to prevent Diabetes

• Taking medication if needed

Type 1 Diabetes always requires daily injections of insulin.

Type 2 Diabetes is controlled through exercise and meal

planning and may require medications and/or insulin to

assist the body in making or using insulin more effectively.

Activity

• Do an online research and find more ways to prevent

diabetes, then write a short paragraph that includes

those ways.