Registered Dietitian Grace Rivers chats about chronic illness, comorbidities with diabetes including heart disease and obesity, how these illnesses are connected through diet, and the healthy, affordable foods to eat to reduce the risk of these illnesses.
Grace Rivers is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist who has been practicing for 27 years. She's currently writing on health and nutrition to reach a broader audience to help make lives easier for those with nutrition-related issues.
"Diet plays a huge impact on all of us. Whether we have any disease or not, it is playing it it has an impact on us. So when you start looking at the affects diet on a disease such as diabetes, or obesity, we're wanting to get foods in someone's diet that helps their guts be more healthy helps their immune systems be stronger."
In this episode, you will learn about…
Different types of comorbidities with diabetes and how they emerge
How to eat to prevent the development of such comorbidities
How to create a simple, balanced, and nutritious diet
Ways to keep your healthy eating habits affordable
The nutritional differences frozen, canned, and fresh foods
Keynotes:
[1:40] Grace talks about what led her to become a registered dietitian, specifically within diabetes care.
[2:40] Highlighting various chronic illness comorbidities that go with diabetes.
[4:35] Explaining how these comorbidities are linked to diabetes.
[5:45] Explaining how these comorbidities are impacted by nutrition and diet.
[6:40] Using exercise and a balanced, nutritional diet to prevent the development of chronic illness.
[7:54] Healthy food combinations for a balanced diet with diabetes.
[9:15] Recipe ideas and resources.
[10:15] Cost-effective healthy eating.
[12:50] Breaking down the differences between frozen, canned, and fresh produce.
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