This document discusses ways for people to stay healthy and prevent diabetes, including avoiding smoking, exercising regularly, eating a balanced diet, and maintaining a healthy weight. It lists targets for good health measures like blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar levels, and waist size. People are encouraged to consider making lifestyle changes to meet these targets and reduce their risk of health issues like diabetes, especially if they have a family history of diabetes or previous gestational diabetes.

1. Diabetes Prevention for You and Your Family

2. Stay Healthy
These are things all people have to do to stay healthy:
 Avoid smoking
 Get regular exercise
 Eat a balanced diet
 Weight management
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3. Measurement of GoodHealth
 Blood pressure of 130/80 or lower
 Total cholesterol below 200
 Hemoglobin A1c below 6.5%
 Feeling well and being active
 A waistline below 35 inches

4. Questions to Ponder
To reach these measures of good health,
people usually have to make changes in their
daily lives. They often ponder the following
questions:
 What are the risks if I don’t change?
 Do I really have to change?
 What are the costs and what are the benefits?
 What will my friends and family say?
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5. Previous Risk May addto Future Risk

6. Future Risk
 If you had gestational
diabetes or a family member
has diabetes, you are at risk
of developing diabetes
unless you make changes in
eating and exercise

7. Future Risk
 Most American do not eat
well
 Do not exercise enough
 Weigh too much
 And therefore are at
increased risk of diabetes!