The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) is a joint effort of the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and over 200 private and public organizations. The goal of the NDEP is to prevent or delay the onset of diabetes and its complications. Funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NDEP was created in 1997. The original purpose of the NDEP was to practically apply the research of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT). Following the 2001 UK Prospective Diabetes Study, the NDEP added blood pressure and cholesterol to glucose management as the diabetes “ABCs”. Follow-up information from both studies further evolved the mission of the NDEP to include the prevention and reduction of eye, kidney, nerve, heart, and vascular complications of diabetes. In 2001 the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) showed that weight loss and physical activity could prevent or delay type …