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Diabetes, the leading non communicable disease has emerged as major health care problem in India. According to the Diabetes Atlas published by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), every fifth diabetic subject in the world would be an Indian. Indians, particularly Keralites are more prone to develop diabetes and its complications at younger age. Diabetes education has been an essential component of diabetes management and is increasingly recognized as an integral part of chronic diseases management, The objective of educating people with diabetes are to optimize metabolic control; prevent acute and chronic complications; improve quality of life by influencing patient behaviour and produce changes in knowledge, attitude and behaviour that is necessary to maintain and improve our health. This study is conducted among 60 teacher educators and 120 high school teachers of Kottayam district to find out the diabetic risk among teacher educators and teachers with respect to socio economic status, age and gender; to gather the opinion of among teacher educators with respect to evolving a diabetic care education course for secondary level teacher education; and to evolve a diabetic care education course for teacher education. The study revealed that majority of teacher educators and teachers are at high or moderate diabetic risk. It gives an urgent implementation of the scientific strategy and practice based pro-active pedagogy and education for controlling the lifestyle diseases. This research evolved a diabetic care education course with seven units and practicum. The seven units are; Introduction (10 hrs.), Conceptual Background of Life Style Diseases (15 hrs), Types of Diabetes (10 hrs), Problems of Diabetes (10 hrs), Coping with Diabetes and Diabetic Dieting (15 hrs), Exercise and Diabetic Care (20 hrs) and Evaluation of Diabetic Care Education (10 hrs). In addition to this the practicum includes; Assignment/Survey (1), Case study/ Project (1), Seminar/Panel discussion (1) and Exercises including 1 month yoga training (1 hour per day).