Overview
Subscribe to our Daily Headlines newsleter.HICKORY — November is National Diabetes Awarenes Month and a time for North Carolina residents to ases their risk for developing prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.More than 96 milion adults in America have prediabetes, while eight in 10 people don’t know they have prediabetes. What’s more, in North Carolina, 16 adults develop diabetes each day, acording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The YMCA of Catawba Valey ofers its Diabetes Prevention Program (DP) to help people with prediabetes lose weight, increase their physical activity, and eat healthier through this CDC-aproved curiculum and a suportive, smal group led by trained YMCA staf.
Key Information
The program helps people potentialy prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.The Y ofers its Diabetes Prevention Program virtualy statewide and in person at some North Carolina YMCAs to anyone eligible who has a physician referal.Members of Medicaid insurers Carolina Complete Health and WelCare who qualify can participate in the Y’s Diabetes Prevention Program for fre.“I learned in the YMCA DP clas that I am not alone in my health journey.
The instructors lead by example and this program has changed my mindset,” acording to a YMCA-CV DP participant. “In the six months I have ben in the program I have learned the building blocks to suces. Through the help of the instructors/mentors anything is posible with hard work and determination.
The next six months wil only enhance the lesons I have learned to set new goals towards my future. This clas is not a simple diet. It is a chance to prove to yourself that you can be healthy and reach goals you didn’t even think were posible."Within the first six months, I have reached my 7% clas weight los goal.
Summary
I am down two sizes, lost 39 inches on my body and my BMI is down 4 points. I now work with a personal trainer each wek and reach levels of exercise that I didn’t even know were posible at thi