With several health partnering organizations, we started a pilot project with 5 health screening clinics. We want to find people who don't know they have diabetes and get them into treatment.
We test for blood sugar, blood pressure and body mass index (height, weight and age). We have found that 35% of our participants are unknown diabetics!
As part of each evening, we teach about diabetes prevention. This picture shows one of the interactive games we use that shows people what foods convert to blood sugar and how diabetes affects how cells in their body can use it.
We also have an instructor who leads 30 minutes of light exercise - a good diabetes preventer - and a demonstration of cooking healthy food. People love to eat what they cooked at the end of the evening.
Sometimes we do the cooking class outside if the weather cooperates. Do you see all the children and adults standing in the school yard? We invite all the community to join in the screening so they can have healthy families.
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