Healthy Communities Initiatives
YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program helps overweight adults at risk for type 2 diabetes reduce their risk for developing the disease by taking steps that will improve their overall health and well-being. The program provides a supportive environment where participants work together over 25 sessions to achieve the program goals.
The YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program is an affordable, high-quality lifestyle change program directly translated from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Diabetes Prevention Program trial, a clinical study that showed that lifestyle change intervention yielding modest weight loss (5 to 7%) and increased physical activity (up to150 minutes per week) can reduce the number of new cases of type 2 diabetes by 58% and 71% in adults over the age of 60.
WHO QUALIFIES
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PROGRAM GOALS:
- Obtain an average weight loss of 7% through healthier eating and physical activity in order to reduce risk
- Increase physical activity to 150 minutes per week