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Welcome to 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', Episode 17

Now with listeners in 17 countries!

This Episode is brought to you by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes.

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 remind us about gout as a possible cause of joint pain, and of the complexity of diabetes.

This week’s studio guest is a representative of one of the most powerful members of the diabetes team in terms of ability to influence glycaemic management apart from medications – the registered dietitian. With Dietitian’s Week having just ended, we welcome back Omy Naidoo, Consultant Dietician and Director Omy Naidoo Inc, Director Newtricion Wellness Institute, Serial Entrepreneur, and Podcaster specialising in critical care nutrition.

We discuss

• The ever-evolving role of the registered dietitian in community and hospital nutrition
• Health professional, client and cost barriers to people with diabetes accessing the services of a registered dietitian and competent medical nutrition therapy, and strategies to improve this, including the power of an informed referral by a primary care doctor
• The role of the person with diabetes in changing the trajectory of diabetes risk in their own families
• The diverse roles and functions of the registered dietitian beyond usual public perceptions
• The power of visiting a dietitian and the risk of not doing so
• The risks and causes of poor nutrition resulting in sarcopenia and poor healing and recovery, particularly in a hospital setting
• The holistic approach of a registered dietitian in facilitating a sustainable healthier pattern of eating, and the process of change
• The importance of moderation in nutrition and maintaining the joy of eating
• Important information on food labels
• Eating as naturally as possible to have more control over your nutrient intake
• Components of a more ‘anti-inflammatory’ way of eating
• How nutrition is not a static entity and has to change over the lifespan
• The importance of a bidirectional professional relationship between a referring doctor and the registered dietitian
• The cost-effectiveness of the interactions with a registered dietitian
• The vast difference in approaches to acute and chronic health care

We also introduce the next Sweet Life Diabetes Community Advocacy Message, “Giving advice is really easy. Living by that advice every time is harder...”

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