The grants are part of a Diabetes Awareness and Education in the Community Program. The 17-member diabetes council assists TDH in planning and coordinating diabetes control programs. Some 920,000 Texas adults have been diagnosed with diabetes.
Diabetes can lead to blindness, heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, amputations and death.
But health officials say diabetes patients can prevent or delay complications by eating healthy meals, exercising regularly, controlling weight, monitoring blood sugar and taking prescribed medicines.