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How to control your diabetes and get tips on healthy meals — free class offered on September 9


If you want to learn how to better control your diabetes and get tips on how to prepare fresh healthy meals, you can get both for free at class on Saturday, Sept. 9.

The Northern Kentucky Health Department and the Boone County Cooperative Extension are offering the comprehensive education from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Boone County Cooperative Extension’s Enrichment Center, 1955 Burlington Pike, Burlington.

Registration is required.

Lunch and a diabetes toolkit will be provided.

Topics will include: what is diabetes, healthy eating, preventing complications and more. Participants will see a cooking demonstration, and then sample freshly prepared meals and snacks to demonstrate healthy cooking techniques for individuals with diabetes.

In addition, participants will have the opportunity to visit the Boone County Farmers’ Market, located adjacent to the extension center.

The class will be led by a Registered Nurse/Certified Diabetes Educator, a Registered Dietitian from the Health Department and the Boone County Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences.

The Health Department’s diabetes program is accredited through the Kentucky Department for Public Health’s Healthy Living with Diabetes program.

For more information and to register for the class or for information about the Health Department’s diabetes control program, please call Joan Geohegan at 859.363.2115 or Julie Shapero at 859.363.2116.


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  1. Myra Gardner says:

    In July of 2016. it was discovered that I got type 2 diabetes, By the end of the July month. I was given a prescription for the Metformin, I stated with the ADA diet and followed it completely for several weeks but was unable to get my blood sugar below 140, Without results to how for my hard work. I really panicked and called my doctor. His response?? Deal with it yourself, I started to feel that something wasn’t right and do my own research, Then I found Lisa’s great blog (google ” HOW EVER I FREED MYSELF FROM THE DIABETES ” ) .. I read it from cover to cover and I started with the diet and by the next morning. my blood sugar was 100, Since then. I get a fasting reading between the mid 70s and 80s, My doctor was very surprised at the results that. the next week. he took me off the Metformin drug, I lost 30 pounds in my first month and lost more than 6 inches off my waist and I’m able to work out twice a day while still having lots of energy. The truth is that we can get off the drugs and help myself by trying natural methods..

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