Help For Those Recently Diagnosed with Diabetes
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You can get free help this summer if you have diabetes—the Northern Kentucky Health Department is offering several free programs. Local 12’s Liz Bonis tells us about them.
It looks like a fancy toy—but Joan Geohegan—a diabetes educator uses this toy as a teaching tool to show patients such as Tom Mitts—how fat fat cells shrink when you better manage type two diabetes. “Type two diabetes is when either the insulin the person makes doesn’t work properly or you don’t make enough of it, and insulin is a hormone that helps you use the energy you get from food.”
Mitts was diagnosed with type two diabetes last year—Since then he’s dropped more than 60 pounds—and no longer has diabetes symptoms such as frequent urination, fatigue and increased thirst. “I was drinking I don’t know how many quarts of water just one after another.”
Geohegan, who also has diabetes—is teaching several free diabetes education programs this summer for the Northern Kentucky Health Department. She’ll discuss some of the latest break through in meters—And pumps like you see here—to help control diabetes as well as how to eat! “We have a dietitian she takes about two hours about how to eat, when to eat, when to eat, what to eat,what combination to eat to help that control be achieved.”
The programs are designed for those that are newly diagnosed—or even if you’ve had diabetes for quite awhile—you can learn the latest information. They are being held at a variety of locations and times to fit your lifestyle, and in most cases they are also free. Mitts says if you don’t take charge of this disease, “Consider the alternative—losing a leg, having a heart attack, going blind, I’m not a good invalid.”
For program details you can call Geohegan at 859-363-2115.
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