A year-long program with weekly one-hour classroom sessions with a trained lifestyle coach who helps registrants learn about healthy eating, physical activity, and other lifestyle changes.

The program is a part of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention's National Diabetes Prevention Program. It's based on the National Institutes of Health-led, CDC-supported, Diabetes Prevention Program study that showed that losing a moderate amount of weight and increasing physical activity reduces the number of cases of type 2 diabetes by 58 percent.