For Your Health: Diabetes Prevention

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Senator Charles Schumer unveiled a $500 million legislation plan to combat type one and type two diabetes and encourage healthy living.

The plan will focus on creating healthier meals for children in schools and remove junk food in schools.

“We need nutritional standards in the lunchroom and in the classroom, those will make a huge difference,” Senator Schumber said.

Those aspects are part of the plan that Kaitlin Byrnes thinks will help make a difference.

Kaitlin has had diabetes since she was 11-years-old.

According to Schumer, 1 in 10 people in the tri-county area have diabetes and the numbers are expected to rise.

That is why, according to Senator Schumer, it is so important for North Country and New York residents to get tested and treatment early.

“If we can do early prevention we could both save money and save lives,” Schumer said.

Caroline Tucker reports:

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