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All About Diabetes
Diabetes is a chronic (long-lasting) health condition that affects how your body turns food into energy.
Your body breaks down most of the food you eat into sugar (glucose) and releases it into your bloodstream. When your blood sugar goes up, it signals your pancreas to release insulin. Insulin acts like a key to let the blood sugar into your body’s cells for use as energy.
With diabetes, your body doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t use it as well as it should.
All About prediabetes
In the United States, 96 million adults—more than 1 in 3—have prediabetes. More than 8 in 10 of them don’t know they have it. With prediabetes, blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough for a type 2 diabetes diagnosis. Prediabetes raises your risk for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. But there’s good news.
Diabetes and Prediabetes Resources
CDC Diabetes Resources
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Lifestyle Change Program
If you’re thinking about making healthy changes to prevent type 2 diabetes a Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognized diabetes prevention lifestyle change
program can help you build healthy new habits that last a lifetime. When you join a lifestyle
change program, you’ll learn, laugh, share stories, try new things, and build new habits—all
while lowering your risk of type 2 diabetes and improving your health.