How You Can Help Prevent Millions

of Non-Infectious Disease Cases

Fellow Citizens:

Ask your doctor to test you for insulin resistance. It's easy and inexpensive. Tell your doctor to check your "fasting insulin" level even if you have no symptoms.

If your level is high, your doctor will advise you to adopt improved eating and exercise habits, and to achieve and keep a lean weight. Your doctor may recommend that you use certain drugs to help you control your insulin resistance.

The good news is that most cases of non-infectious diseases caused by insulin resistance can be prevented. But you must first know, and then act.

Doctors and other Health Care Professionals:

Routinely test all patients, inlcuding the asymptomatic and the young, for hyperinsulinemia by adding fasting insulin to any blood panel. Refresh your knowledge about insulin resistance itself here and the problems your patients experience here.

Policy Makers:

Learn about the costs and impacts of insulin resistance and the ways public policy can both improve our general health, and stem the flood of non-infectious disease costs at local, state and federal levels. Read more about NIRC's public policy proposals here.

Everyone:

Insulin resistant or not, you can contribute to NIRC by sending a tax-deductible (501c3 applied for) check to NIRC, 5414 MD 188, Bethesda MD 20814.