Question

Your friend's father has just been diagnosed with diabetes. What are three strategies you can suggest she use to reduce her own risk of developing diabetes? Explain how each strategy will help. (12 points)

Answer 1

She needs to control her diet (making sure it’s balanced and healthy), which helps due to it making her healthier. This will build up her immune system, but it will also cause her to eat less foods containing unwanted sugar, which will decrease the likelihood of her developing diabetes.

She needs to exercise daily to keep herself physically healthy. Exercise increases the insulin sensitivity of your cells, which is important due to the exercise causing your body to need less insulin to keep your blood pressure under control.

She can check her risk of developing diabetes by taking tests. From the test results, she will find out if she is at risk, and if she is, then she can either look up information on her own for preventing diabetes, or she will be recommended things to do by her doctor.

Answer 2

She needs to control her diet. This helps because it makes her healthier, and less sugar will decrease her risk.
She also needs to exercise daily to keep herself healthy