You can do a lot to lower your chances of getting diabetes. Exercising regularly, reducing fat and calorie intake, and losing weight can all help you reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels also help you stay healthy.
If you are overweight
Then take these steps:
- Reach and maintain a reasonable body weight.
- Make wise food choices most of the time.
- >Be physically active every day.
If you checked
I am fairly inactive.
Then take this step:
- Be physically active every day.
If you checked
My blood pressure is 140/90 or higher.
Then take these steps:
- Reach and maintain a reasonable body weight.
- Make wise food choices most of the time.
- Reduce your intake of salt and alcohol.
- Be physically active every day.
- Talk to your doctor about whether you need medicine to control your blood pressure.
If you checked
My cholesterol levels are not normal.
Then take these steps:
- Make wise food choices most of the time.
- Be physically active every day.
- >Talk to your doctor about whether you need medicine to control your cholesterol levels.
- What is type 2 diabetes?
- How can type 2 diabetes be prevented?
- What are the signs and symptoms of type 2 diabetes?
- Types of diabetes
- Should I be tested for diabetes?
- What does it mean to have pre-diabetes?
- Besides age and overweight, what other factors increase my risk for type 2 diabetes?
- Doing my part: Getting started
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