Thanks for your interest in MADDCAP™ (Martial Arts Defeat Diabetes® Community Action Project) a diabetes community education project. This is a historical juncture for the martial arts community, because for the first time a health based curriculum component will be introduced and offered into martial arts schools.

MADDCAP™ is a joint project of Defeat Diabetes Foundation a nationally registered 501 (c) 3 non-profit charity dedicated to creating awareness about and preventing diabetes and The 100 who are guided by the principle “Out of the Dojo and into the world”. Both organizations support a philosophy of personal responsibility and peer based information to support, educate, create community activism and be a catalyst for local, national, and world change.

Why diabetes?
Diabetes is a chronic and preventable health condition that has reached epidemic proportions in this country. 24 million Americans have diabetes and one third of them don’t know it. An additional 57 million are at risk for developing the disease. If this disease is allowed to continue unchecked we’ll have over 66 million people with diabetes by 2025. In addition, the Centers for Disease Control estimates that one of every three children born after the year 2000 will get diabetes in their lifetime! Many of these children are already coming into your Martial Arts School.

 

The cost to our communities in dollars alone, is over $225 billion annually, and that doesn’t take into account the human suffering caused by a host of debilitating complications that include blindness, amputations, kidney disease and failure, heart disease, and strokes to name only a few.

It doesn’t take a mathematician to figure out that this disease has the potential to totally bankrupt our health care system if something isn’t done to stem the flood tide.

 

The good news is Type 2 diabetes, which represents 90% of all new cases, can be prevented 95% of the time.

 

For a variety of reasons the primary focus of the money spent on diabetes has been 1) to search for a cure 2) to find more effective treatments.

 

This has led to a greater understanding of the disease and its complications. It’s given people with diabetes more effective treatments and has resulted in longer lives and improved quality of life for millions of diabetics. However, very limited resources have been spent on the prevention of disease.

 

You can be an important part of the solution to this problem at a grassroots level by inspiring people to take action – to be real life action heroes by teaching young people to defend themselves with their heads by empowering children with the information to protect themselves from a real killer – diabetes.

 

Be a role model and leader in your community by helping us tackle this disease head on with a coordinated community awareness program.

 

 

This program will:
• Help manifest the martial arts philosophy into the daily lives of your students.
• Teach life-saving information about diabetes and its prevention
• Provide an opportunity for participating Martial Arts schools to make presentations in local schools about diabetes
• Empower students to take community action in their own self-defense
• Develop activities that will generate the interest of the local media, government and general public

 

To register for the MADDCAP™ Program follow the link and enter your contact information into the form and be sure to select MADDCAP from the drop down menu.  You will receive a welcome kit via email within 24 - 72 hours.