Diabetes Prevention and Reversal
November is Diabetes Prevention Month and in commemoration The United Church of Ferndale will host an information meeting for ANYONE, who wants/needs to know more about diabetes or prediabetes. Come learn how to prevent and reverse prediabetes on Tuesday, November 7, 6:30 to 8:00 pm at the United Church of Ferndale; 2034 Washington Street. Speakers are Kate Foster, RN, with the Mt. Baker Foundation and Amy Blom, MPH, Registered Dietitian with Sea Mar Community Health Centers.
Diabetes is preventable and in its prediabetic stage, or close to prediabetic stage, diabetes can be reversed. Meaning that you might not be required to take expensive medications. Why attend this meeting? How much about diabetes was explained at the time you were diagnosed? Did you know what the A1C was? Were you sent to a dietician to discuss what foods would help and what foods would cause trouble? Were you shown how to read grocery labels for sugar content? Were you helped to see how much sugar could safely be in your diet? Are you familiar with the glycemic index? There is a lot to learn, right? If we are not educated about a disease, then how can we be expected to help ourselves?
Statistics about the growing numbers of people with type 2 Diabetes are alarming.
37.3 million Americans—or about 11.3% of the U.S. population—have diabetes.
8.5 million Americans, or about 1 in 5 people, are unaware that they have diabetes.
More than 8 in 10 adults living with prediabetes don’t know they have it.
Diabetes can damage the eyes, kidneys, nerves, and heart, and it is linked to some types of cancer.
One in three adults has prediabetes; GET TESTED
How much of this alarming growth is due to lack of good information?
Attend this meeting, bring a friend, it could change the course of your life.
This is an in-person meeting, meant for your questions to be answered, but it will also be on Zoom. Using your browser go to: https://joinconferencing.zoom.us. When the webpage opens click on the box labeled “Join” and you will see a place to type in the meeting ID. Our meeting ID is 481 967 2553.
