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Welcome to 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', Episode 15

Touching listeners in 15 countries!

This Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and advocacy by Coffeeberry Café, a family owned and run Midland’s restaurant brand. Famous for its great coffee and extensive menu, Coffeeberry Café is open from 7 am to 9 pm daily. Visit Coffeeberry on the Piazza at Cascades Lifestyle Centre in Pietermaritzburg. Check out their menus, reviews and story @ coffeeberry.co.za

If you're living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you're in the right place!

Join us on our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations will
always be honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we discuss real people, their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

This week Stan and Michael review two listener polls for their insights. They also reflect on a common and potentially serious reversible condition seen in many people with diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and a possibly related, but less well-known and more predictive health risk, myosteatosis - a further nail in the coffin of body mass index as a single predictor of health risk.

Our Episode theme is ‘breaking down misconceptions in diabetes’. In this vein we:

• provide an update on a previous studio guest, commercial pilot Jonathan Collins, who has just been granted a medical certificate to exercise the privilege of his licence as a pilot in command or captain.
• meet our studio guest Jonathan ‘Jono’ le Roux, who challenges the common misconception among the public and health professionals that “people with diabetes should not engage in ‘extreme exercise’”. In addition to his recent powerful counter to this uninformed statement (a 5th place as a novice in the Ultra-Trail Drakensburg 100-miler), Jono shares the power of physical activity in the management of his type 1 diabetes. This started with careful experimental observation of his body responses to increasing levels of physical activity and ‘life’ culminating, with the assistance of the ‘Libre’ continuous glucose monitoring system, in the confidence and ability to manage his glycaemia in a more ‘natural’, relaxed and intuitive way. Jono relates his carefully planned training regimen which minimises risks and maximises race performance. He reinforces the need for individualised care of diabetes and the need for people with diabetes to take responsibility for their self-care. Jono’s relaxed, joyful, and peaceful presence shows that his approach is working, and that he is maximising his life potential and quality. And he's not yet done... As he quips, “We still don’t know what's possible!”

We also introduce the next Sweet Life Diabetes Community Advocacy Message, “Sometimes we need to add a little bit of humour into the mix …”

Please participate in our listener polls and questions below!

We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or contributions for future episodes, or if you'd like to advertise on this podcast, please email us @ Podcast@CDEDiabetes.co.za

For health professionals working in diabetes

The CDE Academy Foundation Course in Diabetes Care for Health Professionals is a real-world-applicable online learning experience at one’s own pace. Access it 24/7/365 & earn 30 CPD points: https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/

Learna/University of South Wales offer a one-year, online, part-time, distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes Care. Gain a competitive edge and enhance your client care! Register for the annual September intake: ⁠https://www.diploma-msc.com/p/diploma-in-diabetes⁠