Diabetes Alert Day
Diabetes Alert Day is a one-day event to encourage people to take a diabetes risk test. Type 2 diabetes is one of the most stressful chronic diseases a person can face, and its prevalence only continues to grow throughout the United States. It is estimated that 84 million people have prediabetes, and one in four adults with diabetes don’t know they are living with it. Preventing type 2 diabetes begins with awareness of the risk factors associated with developing the disease. That is why Diabetes Alert Day is a good day to take the diabetes risk test so that you can be aware if you are at risk of having diabetes.
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Entertaining Easy-To-Do Games for Toddlers
Games are more fun when kids become involved in making the rules—and the equipment needed to play. Here are a few simple easy to do games for toddlers.
Hole-in-One With tape, attach a piece of string to a ping pong ball at one end and a paper cup at the other. Then see how many times players can catch the ball in the cup. The string can be adjusted to make the game harder or easier. Different sizes of cups also add difficulty.
Make-your-own Ring Toss Using large paper plates, cut out the center, leaving the outside piece as a ring for tossing. Kids can decide what games they want to play and what the rules are. Rings can be tossed at stationary objects (liter bottle) or a moving object (their own or someone else’s hand or foot.) The rings can be designed and personalized before the games using crayons or markers. Or rings can be assigned different numerical values for scoring.
