National Urban League's Lift Every Voice Campaign Urges Prevention in the Fight Against Diabetes.News Editors/Health & Medical Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2002 Free "Lift Every Voice" Brochure Offers Tips on Lifestyle Changes That Can Help Prevent or Delay Onset of Diabetes Just in time for November's National Diabetes Awareness Month, the National Urban League Institute for Opportunity and Equality today announced that beginning November November: see month. 1, its Lift Every Voice Diabetes Awareness Initiative will work to educate Americans about simple lifestyle changes they can make to delay or prevent the onset of diabetes. Through the campaign -- made possible by generous support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. National Diabetes Education Program National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) was started by the NIH in 1997 to educate the public about the risks of diabetes. This institute provides free diabetes information to the public. External Links
To receive a copy, send a self-addressed self-ad·dressed adj. Addressed to oneself: a self-addressed envelope. self-addressed Adjective addressed for return to the sender Adj. 1. , stamped envelope to: ATT ATT ammonia tolerance test. : Lift Every Voice Diabetes Brochure Offer, The National Urban League Institute for Opportunity and Equality, 1111 14th Street, N.W., Suite 1001, Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. , DC, 20005. In terms of how diabetes impacts the African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. community, Dr. Maya Rockeymoore, senior resident scholar for the National Urban League Institute for Opportunity and Equality, points to the following statistics: -- An estimated 2.3 million African Americans, or 10.8 percent, have diabetes. -- African Americans are one of the high-risk groups for Type 2 diabetes. -- For every six white Americans who have diabetes, 10 African Americans have diabetes. -- The death rate for African Americans with diabetes is 27 percent higher than that for white Americans with diabetes. "As grim as this news is, major studies show that simple lifestyle changes such as those outlined in our Lift Every Voice brochure, especially dietary changes to lower calorie calorie, abbr. cal, unit of heat energy in the metric system. The measurement of heat is called calorimetry. The calorie, or gram calorie, is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of pure water 1°C;. intake and increased physical activity, can help to delay and even prevent the onset of this costly and potentially debilitating de·bil·i·tat·ing adj. Causing a loss of strength or energy. Debilitating Weakening, or reducing the strength of. Mentioned in: Stress Reduction illness," Dr. Rockeymoore said. In addition to the free brochure offer, the Urban League is also encouraging its affiliates nationwide who operate diabetes awareness and outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. initiatives to step up their efforts during the month of November in conjunction with the Lift Every Voice campaign. Some examples of what Urban League affiliates are doing include: -- The Louisville Louisville (l  `ēvĭl), city (1990 pop. 269,063), seat of Jefferson co., NW Ky., at the Falls of the Ohio; inc. 1780. (KY) Urban League engages local physicians in
an initiative to educate diabetics about their disease and how to best manage their condition so that complications from diabetes can be reduced. -- The Houston Area Urban League works with African American men in local churches and participants in their housing program between the ages of 45-60 to educate them about diabetes and increase the number of people screened for the disease. -- The Urban League of Greater Miami encourages weight loss among participants in their Adult Housing Residents program through nutrition and diabetes awareness education. The affiliate also promotes weight loss among children in their after school program by promoting healthy eating habits and physical activity. -- The Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle seeks to increase the number of glucose and cholesterol screenings for adults and people with disabilities living in senior residences. All of the more than 100 Urban League affiliates nationwide will have copies of the free Lift Every Voice diabetes information brochure available for distribution. Contact information for Urban League affiliates is available at www.nul.org, or by calling 212-558-5300. |
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