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Ten Ways to Shape Up Your Family Reunion to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes Family reunions offer a chance to bond with relatives, learn about your heritage, share recipes, and celebrate with your whole family. When learning about your heritage, it is also important to find out if type 2 diabetes runs in your family. Having a family history of type 2 diabetes increases your risk for developing the disease. Take the first step today toward lowering your risk for type 2 diabetes and improving your health and the health of future generations. Find out if you have a family history of the disease. |
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Be Aware of Your Risk for Type 2 Diabetes Share this article with local media and your constituents. Add your logo, name, mission, and contact information. Submit it to your local newspaper or include it in your organization’s newsletter. |
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Every Family Has Secrets! Could Diabetes Be One of Them? Do you know your family’s health history? Or is it like a secret no one wants to talk about? Many health conditions, including type 2 diabetes, run in families. Many people who get type 2 diabetes have one or more family members with the disease. |
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Family history of disease is an important part of understanding your risk for developing a number of serious diseases, including type 2 diabetes. NDEP encourages all families to gather their family health history this holiday season and help prevent or delay type 2 diabetes in future generations. NDEP encourages you to publish this article on family health history by Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers of the NIH in your organization’s newsletters and on your website. Word count: 1,118 |
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History of Gestational Diabetes Gestational diabetes is diabetes that is found for the first time when a woman is pregnant. If you had gestational diabetes when you were pregnant, you and your child from that pregnancy have a lifelong risk for developing diabetes, a serious disease that can lead to health problems such as heart disease, blindness, kidney disease and amputations. The good news is there are steps you can take to prevent or delay diabetes and lower that risk for yourself and your child. |
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