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Prevention

By Mayo Clinic staff

Controlling Your Diabetes

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Healthy lifestyle choices can help you prevent prediabetes and its progression to type 2 diabetes — even if diabetes runs in your family.

  • Eat healthy foods.
  • Get more physical activity.
  • Lose excess pounds.

The same lifestyle changes that can treat or even reverse prediabetes help prevent the condition, too.

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