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Tips for Type 2 Diabetes

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Risk factors of Uncontrolled Diabetes  As you get older, your risk for Type 2 diabetes increases.  If you are age 60 or older, and overweight, you are at risk for diabetes even if you have no other risk factors.

Family history of diabetes increases these risk factors even more.  Take some small steps every day to prevent or delay the onset of diabetes.

Losing even a modest amount of weight (10 to 14 pounds for a 200 pound person) is a workable goal to strive for.

Many people have diabetes and don't even know it!

 
Make moving fun!
Baby steps to get physical active!

What should you do to get yourself moving? 

Think about what kinds of activities you love and then think about what motivates you to do it. 

Then.....put the two of them together! Here are some ideas:

Diabetes Prevention  Hide the remote.  Get up and move around to change the channel!
Diabetes Prevention  Walk around the house when you talk on the phone.
Diabetes Information  Walk the dog around the house during commercials.  He will probably fallow you around anyway!
  Physical Activity  Love Music?  Purchase a mp3 player with headphones.  Listen while you walk.
Physical Activity  Like to dance? Get off the couch on a break, grab your partner and move!
Physical Activity  Like the water?  Tooele Aquatic Center has water walking times set aside.
Physical Activity  Like fun?  Take your grand kids on a scavenger hunt.  Make snow angels.
Physical Activity  Teach your grand kids to dance - even silly dances
 
Like more information?  Follow this link to Baby Steps
 
 
 
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Tooele County Health Department Division of Community Services
151 North Main Street   Tooele Utah 84074
(435) 277 - 2440 Fax (435) 277-2444