RUSSELL, Ky. — The Center for Healthy Living, the weight loss and diabetic education experts at UK King’s Daughters, are offering a free education session, “Preventing Type 2 Diabetes,” twice on Monday, March 18. 

One session is online, and the other is in-person in the early evening. 

Session 1 will be noon–1:30 p.m., virtual session via Webex

Session 2 will be 5:30–7 p.m., in-person session at the King’s Daughters Pavilion, 2000 Ashland Drive, Russell, Kentucky.

Both sessions will be led by registered dietitians Christy Morrison and Eden Zachariah.

The sessions are free but registration is required. 

To sign up, contact Kim Bayes at 606-408-1560 or kim.bayes@kdmc.kdhs.us before Wednesday, March 13.

Facts about diabetes in the U.S.:

• About 96 million adults have prediabetes, which puts them at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes. That is more than one in every three adults.

• Type 2 diabetes can occur at any age, but research shows that high risk factors include:

– being 45 years of age or older and not physically active

– being overweight or have obesity

– having a parent, brother, or sister with type 2 diabetes

– for women, having diabetes while pregnant (gestational diabetes) or a baby weighing more than 9 pounds at birth

Research shows preventing or delaying type 2 diabetes is possible by making healthy lifestyle changes.