Reducing Diabetes

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This paper discusses how diabetes is significantly correlated to obesity, diet and nutrition and is increasing throughout the nation in epidemic proportions. This paper presents a community health approach to working with children in a supportive effort consistent with Healthy People 2010 objective 5.2 to reduce diabetes. The paper discusses the disorder, presents statistics and then narrows the statistical presentation from the nation to New York State to Orange County within New York State. The paper also presents a teaching plan for working with elementary students to teach them healthy eating habits.

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"According to Beck, Evans, Quarry-Horn and Kerrigan (2002) there are approximately 16 million adults, or roughly 8% of the US population, diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Beck et al. (2002) add that there are an additional 13.4 million adults with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), a pre-diabetic condition. Rates of Type 2 diabetes are climbing to epidemic levels (Rizvi, 2004), rising equally across all ethnic populations (Johnson, Williams & Spruill, 2002). According to Pataki and Novello (2005), there was a 49% increase in the rates of diabetes diagnoses from 1990 to 2000. "

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