3rd Annual Diabetes Expo

Chattanooga, TN (WDEF) – Every 19 seconds someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with diabetes, which is why the Annual Diabetes Expo is back in Chattanooga.

Partners and Peers for Diabetes Care has sponsored the event for the past three years now, offering the chance for anyone in the community with diabetes to connect with others who can understand what it’s like to have and live with it.

Cooking demonstrations, learning stations and certified diabetes educators were also on standby to offer help. "We try to make it a really safe place for people to be," said program coordinator, Claire Blum, "It’s just good to get an update on what’s going on in the diabetes world every twice in awhile, because it changes so rapidly."

November is Diabetes Awareness Month, and today is World Diabetes Day. Recent estimates project as many as one in three American adults will have diabetes by 2050 unless we take steps to prevent it.