Thursday, April 25, 2024
4/25/2024
The Wichita and Affiliated Tribes SDPI program will focus on Diabetes-related education, including physical activity education, nutrition education, and other diabetes health and prevention education for FY 2023. Physical activity and a healthy diet are proven strategies to effectively impact diabetes prevention and complications from diabetes. Physical activity is the most effective yet underutilized form of healing physically and mentally. Also, many of the difficulties associated with diabetes (obesity, high blood pressure, increased A1C levels, and poor circulation), to name a few, can be combated by increasing physical activity and maintaining a nutritionally balanced diet. We are increasing physical activity, nutrition education, and diabetes education in our Riverside Indian School Fitness Youth group through traditional native activities and non-traditional games, healthy snacks, and cooking demonstrations introducing traditional food and gardening activities and providing diabetes prevention education. Through working with our native youth, we are instilling physical activity and a healthy diet as a lifestyle. We will continue it into adulthood and decrease their risk of diabetes as adults. The Wichita and Affiliated Tribes will be providing a Community based Fitness Center and community-based exercise classes. The native community has access to our fitness center and exercise classes to help increase physical activity, increase fitness levels, and decrease the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, and metabolic syndrome. It is expected that increasing physical activity will help by lowering blood glucose levels, improving the body's ability to use insulin, decreasing A1C levels in the blood, increasing blood pressure control, and decreasing complications related to diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Community Outreach and Activities. The outreach activities will include physical activity events, nutrition education activitie s, diabetes prevention education but not limited to health fairs, community events, SDPI partnership collaboration activities, weight loss challenge, Annual Diabetes Spirit Walk/Run; Southwest Tribes Diabetes Programs Walk/Run, Anadarko Indian Clinic Diabetes Walk/Run, Nutrition Lunch and learn, gardening classes and education, diabetes prevention education classes, breast cancer walk, heart health walk, elders events including exercise classes, etc. We will provide health screenings, including blood pressure, blood sugar, A1C, cholesterol, and BMI; Diabetes educational material from the IHS Division of Diabetes; nutritional educational information from Myplate.gov; and physical activity education information from the CDC DTTAC curriculum. We will be providing virtual education as needed during the COVID-19 outbreaks. Wellness shoes and socks. We will offer wellness shoes and socks for clients with diabetes who a Podiatrist has seen for their annual foot exam. Based on the Podiatrist's recommendations, we will only provide the patient with wellness shoes. They will be fitted with walking shoes; our Diabetes Program will check the fit upon receiving the shoes. Proper foot care for people with diabetes is vital to overall health; providing adequate footwear will help reduce complications of neuropathy, calluses, ulcers, infections, bone and joint pain, deformities, vascular disease, breakdown of skin, and developing conditions that can lead to the worsening of symptoms and more severe treatments. Understanding the risks and possible outcomes from your foot exam may lead to a decrease in complications. Proper footwear will allow increased physical activity, an essential component of blood sugar control, and can reduce the glucose in your blood. The Wichita and Affiliated Tribes Special Diabetes Program will focus on diabetes prevention and education through physical activity, nutrition education, diabetes prevention education, and activities.
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