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Youth Camp Merges with Diabetes Association
The Diabetes Association of Greater Cleveland (DAGC) has merged with Camp Ho Mita Koda, one of the nation's oldest diabetes camping organizations. The camp, located in Newbury (Geauga County), will operate as a subsidiary of DAGC, enabling both organizations to increase services in Northeast Ohio for children and teenagers with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Camp Ho Mita Koda annually serves more than 300 children with diabetes, offering camp and year-round youth programs.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 177,000 young people under 20 years of age in the U.S. have diabetes. As obesity rates in children continue to soar, type 2 diabetes, a disease that used to occur primarily in adults over age 45, is becoming more common in young people. The CDC predicts that one in three children born in the U.S. in 2000 will develop type 2 diabetes in their lifetime unless current diet and exercise habits change.
The DAGC has four health educators on its staff to provide direct services to the one in 14 people affected by type 1 and type 2 diabetes in Northeast Ohio. In addition to Camp Ho Mita Koda, DAGC's programs include medical nutrition therapy, diabetes self-management education, risk assessments, counseling, community education programs, emergency diabetes supply distribution and support of local diabetes research. For more information about the Diabetes Association of Greater Cleveland and Camp Ho Mita Koda, visit www.dagc.org and www.CampHoMitaKoda.org or call 216-591-0800.
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