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The Indian population faces a high risk for diabetes and pre diabetes because of high genetic
predisposition, sedentary lifestyle patterns, wrong eating habits and lack of physical activity. This
research study was aimed to reduce the blood sugar level and prevent onset of type 2 diabetes in pre
diabetic patients. In this study pre diabetic patients (N=35) were selected from four municipal
dispensaries across Mumbai. And they were assessed and evaluated which were noted in terms of
pre and post questionnaire. Participants were also given nutrition education in a guideline format
with certain recipes which were explained to them verbally. The results showed that majority of
subjects had reduced blood sugar level and the impact of nutrition education was seen to have a
positive result on blood sugar level as it was seen to significantly decrease as the p value of FBS was
seen to be 0.007 and that of PLBS was seen to be 0.000 (p<0.05) which was highly significant. The
results of physical activity also showed a positive outcome as participants were more involved in
physical activity then what was observed previously. The present study would thus like to conclude
that the subjects were seen to following a better lifestyle. The subjects were seen to eating healthier,
eating homely food, going for more physical activity and thus showed improvement in their
anthropometric and biochemical parameters.
Key words: Intervention, pre-diabetes, blood sugar level, physical activity.