Jill Hall (Shortland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise today to share with the House the fact that I am holding a diabetes forum in Swansea on 12 July. I will be inviting all residents from the Swansea-Caves Beach-Marks Point area to come along and learn the facts about diabetes. The 12th of July falls within Diabetes Week, a week when it is very important to raise community awareness about diabetes, to allow people to put in place strategies and to improve their lifestyle, which will in turn improve their chances of remaining healthy and not developing diabetes.

To a large extent diabetes, particularly type 2 diabetes, is a lifestyle disease. At this forum people will learn strategies about healthy eating and exercise that they can put in place to minimise their chance of developing type 2 diabetes. On the day, we will have nurses from Diabetes Australia in attendance and we will also have somebody coming along to demonstrate the type of exercise that the residents of that area can undertake to not only improve their physical fitness but minimise their chance of contracting diabetes. (Time expired)