Health & Diabetes Awareness Ambassador Program

Health & Diabetes Awareness Ambassador Program for Middle School Students

Over a third of Americans over the age of two are overweight, diabetes affects about 10% of the American and global populations, and experts agree the numbers are only rising!

So what can we do to help?

This program is designed to train middle school students to serve as their family's health and diabetes prevention ambassadors. Through an educational, informative, and interesting presentation students will gain more than a basic understanding of their family's health in an effort to reduce their family’s risks of diabetes as well as obesity. So far over 175 students have been learned healthy habits and gone home to teach their parents how to be healthier through this program.

This presentation is not medical advice (although all the information is from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) & the American College of Physicians(ACP)), but rather provides some tips for students on how to prevent diabetes by paying attention to some of the well known dos and don’ts.

The presenter, Maya Levy, was a Miami-Dade highschooler and is currently an MIT student who has been researching in the field of diabetes management for almost five years. Both sets of her grandparents suffer from diabetes and both the middle two years of her high-school research related to non-invasive diabetes management won fourth place in the international science fair.

*Graphics are not owned or made by the presenter, Maya Levy. All graphics/diagrams were found online, mostly made by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) or American College of Physicians).