Eating Well
Name 3 non-starchy veggies
What are lettuce, peppers, broccoli, carrots, cucumbers, mushrooms?
Recommended activity minutes each week.
What is at least 150?
This way to cope with an eating trigger of "I'm hungry"
Eat something healthy
Stop when you feel full
Use a small plate
Avoiding this 2 hours prior to sleeping will minimize trips to the bathroom.
What is caffeine or alcohol?
It measures your average blood glucose, or blood sugar, level over the past 3 months.
What is an A1C test?
Eggs and fish are examples of this.
What are protein foods?
True or False? Mowing the lawn counts as activity minutes
YES!
You are going to the store and you think you are hungry. What could you do to cope with that?
Have a healthy snack before you go.
Wearing this will help you sleep better if there is too much light in the room.
What is a sleep mask?
Higher than 5.7% is considered this.
Pre-diabetic or Diabetic
Butter, french fries and creamy salad dressings are all what type of food?
What are Fatty foods
Dance - Play with kids - work out with a friend!
Shop with a list and stick to it - Don't let those cookies end up in the basket.
Remind yourself that you are making better choices
Avoid using this a few hours to bedtime to make your brain ready for sleep.
What is a computer, cellphone, or TV?
TRUE or FALSE - Approx 96 million American adults - more than 1 in 3 have prediabetes.
TRUE!! And 80% don't know they have it.
A good alternative for fresh fruits and vegetables is this.
Frozen
What's a small change you can make to add activity in your daily routine?
Parking farther from the door
setting a timer to remind yourself to move every 1/2 hour
I like to snack while I watch TV - what can you do to cope with this trigger?
Keep hands busy by knitting
Make snack bags
Keep celery carrots and other healthy snacks ready to eat.
Chew gum
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommend that adults get at least theis many hours of sleep per night.
What is 7 hours?
True or False - you are more likely to get type 2 diabetes if you spend a lot of time sitting or lying down?
TRUE
Pre-measured snacks
drink water
Percentage of weight loss to prevent/delay type 2 diabetes?
5%
Contacting your friends or family or adopting a pet can help with this eating trigger.
What is Loneliness
Getting less than the recommended hours of sleep can cause this.
Increase insulin resistance, make you hungrier the next day, make you more likely to reach for junk foods, harder to lose weight, raise blood pressure, increased risk of heart attack, immune resistant, increase risk of depression and anxiety.
If you have prediabetes, you are more likely to......
Get diabetes
Get Heart disease,
Experience a Stroke