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Discover how funding from the BCBS of South Carolina Foundation provides k-12 schools with guidance and tools to help them begin making healthy changes. The programs the funding supports align with the mission of DFSC and have had noticeable results, including positive body mass changes.

DFSC, a long-term commitment to reduce health care disparities and improve the health status of all South Carolinians affected by diabetes, was launched in 2020. Discover how the organization aims to increase health equity throughout South Carolina.

Careful meal planning and preparation is key to managing diabetes. But many people affected by diabetes also are affected by food insecurity. Learn how DFSC is helping to reduce the racial and income disparities in the prevalence and severity of diabetes, and in access to care, that afflict our state.

Dr. Timothy Lyons, Executive Medical Director for Diabetes Free SC (DFSC), contributed a Letter to the Editor to the Post & Courier. Read his letter and discover his strategies for how DFSC will help reduce the impact diabetes has on families in South Carolina.

A healthy diet, exercise, weight control and, if applicable, smoking cessation, are big steps in the right direction to manage diabetes. Discover eight ways you can help manage diabetes.