Welcome to 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', Episode 19
Now with listeners in 18 countries!
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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 our listeners on the bidirectional relationship between oral health and diabetes and periodontal and cardiovascular diseases. Also about vaccination for human papilloma virus (HPV) to change the future for young people by preventing a common sexually transmitted infection, which may also raise long-term risk for certain cancers.
Stan then interviews Michael on some of the ‘Core Concepts’ he has identified in diabetes care over the last nearly 30 years:
“Diabetes is a Common, Costly and Challenging Chronic health Condition. Most cases of diabetes are Classified into 4 major aetiological types: Type 1, Type 2, Gestational Diabetes (GDM) and ‘Other’. Although people with undiagnosed diabetes or whose diabetes is not well-managed may complain of Classic symptoms, most do not - they do not know they have the condition, and they continue to feel relatively well despite underlying health risks.
Undiagnosed or uncontrolled diabetes can result in an increased risk of acute metabolic and chronic Cardiovascular and Cancer Complications. Further bad news is that we don’t have any satisfactory Cure at present. But the good news is that once diagnosed, diabetes is Controllable - thus potential complications may be prevented or delayed. Control can and should be achieved and maintained in the Community, using 3 Cornerstones of treatment together with regular Checking of outcomes.
But that’s not all. Choice Care should be a ‘Team’ facilitated process that has Continuity, is Congruent and which strives for Concordance between the Team and the person with diabetes. Good Communication is vital, and this will give that person the best chance of achieving Confident Self-Care. However, many strange and mythical Conceptions are associated with the condition. Before successful diabetes management can be achieved, Change in our and our client’s ways of thinking is required, through a Continuous process of Conscious and Contemplative self-review.
All the terms in this set of Core Concepts in diabetes, begin with the letter ‘C’, which may help you to remember them. We will unpack these concepts in this and future Episodes …
We also introduce the next Sweet Life Diabetes Community Advocacy Message, “Peer Support makes such a difference...”
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