Choctaw Nation Diabetes Prevention Program: National Diabetes Prevention Program

[Music] our main purpose for the diabetes prevention program is to help people just to decrease their risk of developing type 2 diabetes whether it be by weight loss or improving their physical activity I believe that prevention now will help those people that do have pre-diabetes delay or prevent diabetes in their lifetime and their quality of life will also be good when the program began and I had the tools I started to uh to lose weight and I felt better because I was like hey I'm meeting these goals I'm you know um I'm losing weight I'm upping my activity minutes I'm starting to get this done with the national diabetes prevention program we all have different cultures we all have different Lifestyles we have different food tastes but in the end we're all working together to prevent diabetes [Music]