Diabetes, heart disease and stroke are Australia’s fastest growing conditions. 

Are you at risk?

• Being overweight or obese with a large waist size 
• Lack of physical activity 
• An unhealthy diet 
• Smoking 
• High blood cholesterol 
• High blood pressure 
• Stress 

Being active, maintaining a healthy weight and eating healthy and balanced meals are just some of the simple lifestyle changes you can make to reduce your risk. Complete our free health test and learn more about your risk. 

It is important for everyone to be active every day and eat well, not just those aiming to prevent diabetes. Yet while most of us know the benefits of living a healthy, active lifestyle, many of us see it as a lot of hard work and having to give up lots of good things, when it’s really not like that at all.  Involving the entire family in making decisions such as taking steps to set lifestyle goals and working towards making lifestyle changes is an important first step to preventing type 2 diabetes.  It is true that making changes to your lifestyle may mean sacrificing some old habits but with some careful planning and support from programs’ such as our Life! program you can make these changes to be a part of your every day and reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases such as heart disease. 

Delivered by dietitians and exercise physiologists, Life! empowers you to make small changes to your daily habits to improve your nutrition, physical activity and stress management. You can choose from a group course or telephone health coaching. Best of all, it’s free.  
 
To join the Life! program or to find out more, call 13 7475 or visit lifeprogram.org.au. 

We offer the English Life! program and translated and culturally tailored programs in the following languages: 

• Chinese 
• Vietnamese 
• ​​​​​​​Arabic 

Say hello to Zoe, a Life! program participant 

This program is amazing. It really helped much more than I expected! 

Take a look here for more Life! program success stories.