Type 2 Diabetes Informative Speech Outline

 Introduction
 Attention-Getter: If you had to decide between death by a disease or by old age, which one would you choose? Most of us would go with death by old age just because it isn’t as painful. But what if I said I can help you heighten your chances of dying from old age?
 Specific Purpose: Today I will be informing you on how to improve your health.
 Goodwill: You may be asking yourself, why is it important to improve my health? Well living healthy can lower your risk of diseases and live a happier, longer life.
 Credibility: Type 2 diabetes runs in my family and ever since my last surgery, I had to change my life style in order to stay healthy and pain free.
 Central Idea: The major changes that can help you improve your health that I will be discussing today are: Knowing your current health status, adding exercise, and

What I mean by this is knowing your BMI (body mass index) and are categorized in underweight, normal weight, overweight obese.
 Knowing what category you are in is important. In the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disease state “Overweight and obesity may increase the risk of many health problems.” In the article the risk of disease are Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer and many more.
 The charts above show the percentages of both our class and the general public’s data of the people who’s had contact with a Doctor.
• The general public’s data was from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the “Summary Health Statistics for U.S.Adults: National Health Interview Survey, 2012”
• Both charts are very close to each other, which is a good thing because most of you know how healthy you are
• But if you are part of the 21 percent, I will not leave you out because the Center for Disease Control can also calculate which category you are in when you input your height and weight, but it is highly recommended to go in for a