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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.