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Summarize Lifestyle intervention programs promoting healthy diets, physical activity, and modest body weight reductions can prevent or delay the onset of diabetes among high-risk populations. Evidence supports the efficacy and effectiveness of such interventions across clinical and community settings, delivery formats, and implementers. At-risk individuals need education, access to ongoing support, and an adequate environment to engage in health-enhancing behaviors. Health care practitioners and systems can contribute by providing individual counseling, establishing referral systems and linkages with community programs and resources, or by introducing health information technologies to screen for unhealthy behaviors or deliver interventions. These strategies represent opportunities where practitioners, communities, and health care systems can work together to provide individuals with education, support, and opportunities to maintain healthy, diabetes-free lifestyles.