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There’s several things to find out about
your health history in terms of Type 2 Diabetes.

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The first is—is there a history of Type
2 Diabetes in the family?

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Is there anyone in the family who has Type
2 Diabetes now?

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Are there people in the family who have been
told they’re at high-risk for developing

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Diabetes or that they need to lose weight
or be more active in order to prevent Diabetes?

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People from certain racial and ethnic populations
including African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos,

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American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian
Americans or Pacific Islanders, also have

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a higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes.

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And then the other question is to find out
if your mother had Gestational Diabetes during

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her pregnancy.

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If the answer to any of those questions is
yes, talk to your doctor about getting tested

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for Pre-Diabetes and Diabetes.

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We know from the Diabetes Prevention Program
and other studies that in fact there are things

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that people can do who are at high-risk to
prevent or delay the onset of Type 2 Diabetes.

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For example, they can lose a modest amount
of weight, become moderately physically active.

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For example, walk 30 minutes five days a week,
and make healthier food choices. And those

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things can go a long way to lowering their
risk, and therefore delay or prevent Type

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2 Diabetes.

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It sounds easy to say lose a modest amount
of weight, become moderately physically active,

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make healthier food choices, but we all know
that it’s not that easy.

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Making changes in lifestyle is one of the
hardest things that people do. One of the

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strategies that we know that works and helps
is to involve the whole family in preventing

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Diabetes.

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So think about how as a family you can be
more active, make healthier food choices and

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support each other in those efforts to live
a healthy and long life.

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I think the first thing to realize is that
change doesn’t happen with one giant sweep

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of willpower.

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So one of the strategies that we know that
is effective is to take a big change and break

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it down into steps.

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So make it as simple as in order to be more
active, in order to begin to lose weight,

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what is one thing I can do this week that
will help me to make a step towards that goal?

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So for example, if you want to be more active
maybe you need to start simply by looking

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at your schedule and finding a good time to
exercise.

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Maybe you need to start with just a walk around
the block. Maybe you need to look at do I

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have the right shoes and the right time and
the right equipment that I need?

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So break it down into doable steps; figure
out what the barriers might be and strategies

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to overcome those barriers.

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Two of the resources that we have available
here are--first of all--the Small Steps--Big

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Rewards because we know that by making a series
of small steps you do in fact reap big rewards

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in the prevention effort.

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And second, Your Game Plan, which really helps
you to think through step-by-step, what do

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I want to do and how can I get it done?

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Both of those tools are designed to help you
think about what do I want to accomplish and

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how can I break it down into steps that I
can then achieve and then take another step

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and then another step, and continue on the
road to preventing Diabetes.

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For additional information visit the National
Diabetes Education Program at Your Diabetes

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Info.org.