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  • Small Steps for Big Changes

    A program designed to help you develop the tools to make lasting dietary and exercise changes to lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

  • For Health Care Providers

    Does your patient have prediabetes? At risk for developing type 2 diabetes? Click here to learn more about our evidence-based 3-week personalized diet and exercise program.

  • For Persons with Prediabetes

    Are you at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes? Click here to learn more about our 3-week personalized diet and exercise program.

About Us

Small Steps for Big Changes is a lifestyle counselling program that can help people make lasting dietary and exercise changes in order to lower their risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the future. The primary purpose of Small Steps for Big Changes is to help you make changes to your exercise and diet and to stick to these changes long-term.

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What is Prediabetes?

Prediabetes is a condition where your body has higher than usual blood sugar levels but not high enough to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Prediabetes is classified when your fasting blood glucose levels are elevated but slightly lower than 7 mmol/L.

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Progress so Far

The Small Steps for Big Changes team and participants are consistently reinventing the wheel. Read more to learn about the latest updates in the program.

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Partners

 

Downtown YMCA Kelowna                 Kelowna Family YMCA

#1011 – 505 Doyle Avenue                 375 Hartman Road

Kelowna, BC                                        Kelowna, BC

V1Y 6V8                                               V1X 2M9

Small Steps for Big Changes
Okanagan Campus
#1011 - 505 Doyle Avenue
Kelowna, BC Canada V1Y 6V8
Tel UBCO office: (250) 807-8419 | YMCA office: (778) 478-8514
Website smallsteps.ok.ubc.ca
Email small.steps@ubc.ca
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