November is Diabetes Awareness Month and Fitness Together Dedham, Cohasset, Norwell & Westborough want you to ACT NOW. If you suffer from diabetes you can get a FREE week of small group personal training in the month of November for you and a friend at any one of our four participating studios.
As the ADA notes on their website: With nearly 26 million children and adults in American living with diabetes, and another 79 million at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes, the disease is taking a devastating physical, emotional and financial toll on our country. Yet, most Americans don’t consider diabetes a serious matter. They feel it is someone else’s responsibility; someone else’s problem.
Recent numbers by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention paint a desperate situation of where we are at, and where we are headed:
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▪Every 17 seconds, someone is diagnosed with diabetes.
▪Diabetes kills more people each year than breast cancer and AIDS combined.
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▪Recent estimates project that as many as 1 in 3 American adults will have diabetes in 2050 unless we take steps to Stop Diabetes.
Now is the time to act.