[Instructor speaking] Alright, back again, week 13 of our Diabetes Prevention Program, physical activity [group cheering].
[Ann Albright, PhD, RD, Director, Division of Diabetes Translation, CDC speaking] The classes that are part of the National Diabetes Prevention Program work because they have been studied and tested. We have known for some time now based on really well done research studies that you can prevent or postpone type 2 diabetes. This is the opportunity for us to implement those findings in a way that the population can experience it.
[Instructor speaking] Tim, looking at how far you have come, I mean what else is out there? Where else do you want to go?
[Erin Brown, Lifestyle Coach speaking] In their core 16 weeks of this program participants will come in and meet once a week with their facilitator in their small group. We'll sit down and we'll discuss one of our 16 lifestyle topics for that day.
[Words on screen and music playing] CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program works with community organizations and insurers to prevent type 2 diabetes through group classes focusing on healthy eating, increasing physical activity, weight loss, stress reduction and coping skills, and lifestyle change.
[Vivien Ogburn, Program Participant speaking] I've been pre-diabetic for over two and a half years. And I've just kind of ignored it because that word "pre" was there.
[Debbie Wente, Program Participant speaking] I knew that my blood sugar was high and I would watch my diet a little bit and then I would stop but I didn't do anything consistently on a consistent basis.
[Larry Fineman, MD, Norton Community Medical Associates speaking] There's an issue with the patients not realizing the problem is as bad as it is or as bad as it may become.
[Words on screen and music playing] People with prediabetes have a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Diabetes is a major cause of kidney failure, foot and leg amputations, blindness among adults, heart disease, and stroke.
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[John Lincoln, Lifestyle Coach speaking] The first few weeks of the program we're talking all about fat gram intake behavior modification, your level of activity and how physically active that you are during the day and stress management.
[Erin Brown, Lifestyle Coach speaking] Stress management is a very important piece when it comes to lifestyle change. It affects people's eating. It affects people's physical activity. It affects everything that has to do with lifestyle change.
[John Lincoln, Lifestyle Coach speaking] A lot of people think you have to have machines and tracks and things like that to constitute exercise. But what we look at in the class is how active are you, really, throughout the day.
[Debbie Wente, Program Participant speaking] I like to walk early in the morning it gets your day started and it's a good little power walk and it's free. It doesn't cost anything to walk here.
[Vivien Ogburn, Program Participant speaking] [Counting] Initially, I was in denial that there's a higher percentage of African Americans affected by diabetes than other ethnic groups. But, all around me friends, family, church members I was seeing younger and younger people affected by the disease.
[Words on screen and music playing] Risk for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes is higher if overweight or obese; family history of the disease; age 45 or older; not physically active; had diabetes while pregnant; or African American, American Indian, Hispanic, Asian American, or Pacific Islander.
[Vivien Ogburn, Program Participant speaking] One of the things that we were required to do was to set a goal of weight loss, set a nutritional goal because we established what our fat gram content had to be for the day. We were to set in our books exactly how many minutes we were going to exercise every day.
[Ann Albright, PhD, RD, Director, Division of Diabetes Translation, CDC speaking] The real success is that people are working together to try to find a solution and to support each other.
[Debbie Wente, Program Participant speaking] Without the class I would have never done this on my own because I had tried. I had done every single thing out there that I could think of.
[Erin Brown, Lifestyle Coach speaking] My hope for this program is that many physicians across our community will use this resource as their first line of defense against type 2 diabetes. That's what our program is here for.
[Ann Albright, PhD, RD, Director, Division of Diabetes Translation, CDC speaking] This is really the example of what we wish would happen in many fronts. Is that the government, the private sector and the community sector would really join forces and come together to solve these problems.
[Larry Fineman, MD, Norton Community Medical Associates speaking] My patients love the idea of being able to have a program to be healthier going forward. My patients really love that. They are surprised that they can actually get older and be on fewer medications.
[Vivien Ogburn, Program Participant speaking] I am so excited because I went to the doctor last week, all of my numbers were down and I am officially no longer pre-diabetic.
[Ann Albright, PhD, RD, Director, Division of Diabetes Translation, CDC speaking] There are almost 80 million people that have pre-diabetes. My dream is that in the next few years it will be easy for people to get access to this program and ultimately, we will be able to say, fewer people are developing type 2 diabetes.
[Words on screen] To learn more about how you can get involved with the National Diabetes Prevention Program www.cdc.gov/diabetes.
CDC wishes to thank the following organizations for their participation in the making of this video: Diabetes Training and Technical Assistance Center and Emory University (www.dttac.org), YMCA of Greater Louisville, and YMCA of the USA (www.ymca.net/diabetes-prevention)