Basketball Legend Walt Frazier Teams with Association to Fight Diabetes, Heart Disease: CLICK HERE FOR MORE
The Heart Of Diabetes Encourages People to Control Type 2 Diabetes

HOUSTON, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Walt "Clyde" Frazier knows the
importance of good health goes beyond the basketball court. At the peak of
his professional basketball career in the 1970s, he kept a work-out
routine, had regular check-ups and paid close attention to his overall
health. Now, almost 40 years later, Frazier continues to maintain a healthy
lifestyle because a healthy future means more to him than ever.

It is also important to Frazier that others learn how to have a healthy
future, which is why he is teaming up with the American Heart Association's
The Heart Of Diabetes(SM): Understanding Insulin Resistance national
campaign. The goal of the program is to educate people who live with type 2
diabetes about their increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) because
adults with diabetes have heart disease death rates that are approximately
two to four times higher than adults without diabetes. In fact, at least 65
percent of people with diabetes die from some form of heart disease and
stroke.

Frazier has a family history of type 2 diabetes, obesity and CVD. The
Heart Of Diabetes program offers participants a family history tool that
helps them track blood relatives who have or had diabetes or associated
cardiovascular diseases....