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Welcome to Episode 37 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!

Don't forget the upcoming SA Diabetes Summit for 2023. Find out more and register here: https://lcp.live/registration-2023-diabetes-summit/

Now with listeners in 28 countries, this Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care 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 our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we meet real people, discuss their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

Stan and Michael reflect on the just-past 25th CDE Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes Management, the growing ‘layers’ of physiological insights and care resources being identified, and the JEDI approach to learning included (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion). They also look forward to the upcoming World Diabetes Day on 14 November (themed ‘Know Your Risk, Know Your Response’), and the SA Diabetes Summit taking place in Pretoria on 15 November.

Joining us in studio for this week’s episode is Holly Heinzelmann, a BSc graduate and current Law Student, Public Speaker, Writer and Critical Thinker.

In a deeply personal conversation, Holly shares:

• Her ‘epic’ experience at the CDE Forum as a person with lived experience of type 1 diabetes, and her positive feedback on the inclusion of people with diabetes as session facilitators
• Her thoughts on who the real customer is for the pharma and diagnostic industries and the pharmacoeconomic case for including innovative technologies in diabetes care
• Why continuous glucose monitoring is a vital part of her diabetes self-care.
• Her experience as a person also living with cerebral palsy which affects her balance and ability to walk – Holly discusses how this affects her diabetes self-care both in treatment of hypoglycaemia and in physical activity, and how her chronic health challenges reduce her access to the privilege of ‘living with spontaneity’
• Her thoughts on the subject of ‘disability’, working towards making this a neutral term, how others view the ‘value’ of people with various disabilities, and how others often assume wrongly that a physical disability is paired with a cognitive disability.
• Her current involvements in disability and diabetes advocacy, and why all people should take this advocacy seriously

In our next Community Advocacy Message, Kirsten de Klerk from SA Diabetes Advocacy announces 3-5 km Sweet Life Community Walks taking place in Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town on Saturday 18 November.

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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. Sign up for a second year to earn an MSc in Diabetes. Gain a competitive edge and enhance your client care! Register @ ⁠https://www.diploma-msc.com/p/diploma-in-diabetes⁠