FREE Diabetes Community Empowerment Program – Surry and Isle of Wigh

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Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/17/2018 - 07/21/2018
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Location
Blackwater Regional Library — Carrollton Branch

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FREE Diabetes Community Empowerment Program – Surry and Isle of Wight residents

Are you ready you take charge of you health?

Learn how you can live with and manage diabetes, stay healthy and enjoy a full life!

Four (4) FREE educational sessions are open to residents of Surry and Isle of Wight Counties — all ages, with or without diabetes, caregivers, health and wellness ministries, etc.

July 17 and 24 & August 14 and 21 – 5:30—7:00 p.m.

Register by July 13th at https://adadcephr.eventbrite.com

Session Topics:

¨ When the Diagnosis is Diabetes, You are in Charge — Includes prescreening, general overview of diabetes, management, prevention & treatment

¨ You Can Still Eat the Food You Love prepare healthier foods, learn about portion control, and enjoy healthier foods when eating on the go

¨ Motion’s the Potion: How Activity Helps Learn how to increase your level of physical activity day to day with your diet and maintain a healthy weight

¨ Risk Control for Heart Attack & Stroke — ABCs of good diabetes management to help you stay on track and lower your risk

¨ How to Limit the Damage Diabetes Can Do Learn about health complications involving nerve damage and kidney disease, sexual health, skin, teeth, and gums among those diagnosed with diabetes, preventative measures; delaying onset of symptoms and management of disease

For more information or interested in being a host site, please contact:

Michelle Ellis Young

myoung@diabetes.org

(757) 797-5611