If you have prediabetes or other risk factors for type 2 diabetes, now is the time to take charge of your health and make a change. The FREE Diabetes Prevention Program at OSF HealthCare Saint James – John W. Albrecht Medical Center can help.
One in three adult Americans – that’s 86 million people – have prediabetes and most of them don’t know it!
As a group, participants in the year-long program learn to eat healthy, add physical activity to their lives, stay motivated, and solve problems that may get in their way of healthy changes. The program runs weekly for 16 weeks, then monthly for the rest of the year. Participants commit to lose weight (just 5 percent to 7 percent of their body weight).
To learn more about the Diabetes Prevention Program and your eligibility, call (815) 842-4970. No physician referral is required.