Military service increases men's tendency to view food as a source of reward and pleasure, and to crave for sweet foods. In civilian life, health pursuit decreases eating of sweet and fatty foods but during service only of sweet foods. During service eating of fatty foods is not related to pleasure pursuit. Introduction: Screening for type 2 diabetes is increasingly being offered in general practice. Once the diagnosis is made healthcare services are likely to offer health promotional and preventive initiatives. Preventive and treatment recommendations are fully developed, but how we motivate people to make use of these initiatives and offer the right ones remains less clear. Aim: To investigate socio-economic and disease-related predictors for participating in the "Ready to Act" program dealing with support to action competence for living with dysglycaemia. We hypothesize that the possibility of participating in this particular program will increase in accordance with a higher level of education, cohabitant and no competing diseases. Design: A cohort study was embedded in the randomized controlled trial of a primary care/general practice screening and intervention programme. The study population (n=320) were adults with screendetected prediabetes or with type 2 diabetes recruited by a mailed invitation after the screening procedure. The "Ready to Act" program, which consisted of 2 individual interviews and 8 group meetings delivered over 12 weeks, was offered to the intervention group by a multidisciplinary team of health professionals, as a supplement to intensive treatment in general practice. In total 45% (n=144) accepted to participate in the program and 38% (n=123) fulfilled.