With the help of speakers from local doctor offices, hospital, pharmacist and other health care providers the Fleming County Cooperative Extension Office is host to a monthly Diabetes Support Group. The number of participants vary from 6 to 14 attending each month.

The Healthy Choices Curriculum is used quite often as a bases for the classes. The SNAP-Ed assistant is responsible for preparing a dish to go along with what lesson is being taught.

One of the participants that had been diagnosed as pre-diabetes has reported that in the last six months she has lost around 20 pounds, her A1C has gone down to within normal range and the doctor has taken her off the medicine she had been taking and told her to continue with whatever she had been doing.

When asked if she was going to continue with the class she replied that with the help she had received from attending the classes she wasn’t going to chance not coming.

Submitted by:

Barbara Campbell

Fleming County SNAP-Ed Assistant