You do not have to change your whole life

The National Diabetes Prevention Program lifestyle change programme exists
because prediabetes can often be reversed. These videos are its
participants describing what that was like.

The pitch

**You don't have to change your whole life. Find out which changes matter
most and how to make them last.**

That is a deliberately small promise, and it is the right one for this
condition.

Prediabetes affects more than 2 in 5 American adults, most of whom do not know
they have it. The instinctive response to being told — overhaul everything,
starting Monday — is also the one most likely to be abandoned by March.

"Which changes matter most" concedes that not all of them do. "How to make
them last" concedes that the hard part is not knowing what to do.

What the participants say

Percy learned to make lifestyle changes he can stick to for a lifetime.

The framing throughout is about habits rather than resolutions — the same
distinction the CDC's other diabetes material makes, and for the same reason.
A condition managed over decades is only managed by things that have stopped
requiring a decision.

What is actually on offer

**Imagine how it would feel to take charge of your life and lower your risk of
type 2 diabetes. Imagine having more energy to do the things you love with the
people you love.**

Not a diet and not a diagnosis to live with — **the chance to reverse
prediabetes**, which is a genuinely different offer from most chronic disease
messaging, and accurate.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.