Welcome to Episode 47 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!
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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 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.
This week, Stan and Michael discuss the place of reduced calorie meal replacements as part of a therapeutic Very Low-Calorie Diet (VLCD) approach used to reduce medication burdens and costs and possibly achieve remission of type 2 diabetes. They also reflect on access to diabetes care in the context of South Africa’s Human Rights Day on 21st March.
The rest of the Episode is anchored in an exploration of a relatively rare role in the wider diabetes care team. To assist us with this, Specialist Dietitian in Paediatric Diabetes Jessie Chien joins us from the United Kingdom to share her experience and insights. Jessie is passionate about helping children and young people living with diabetes, and their families navigate the world of food, insulin and blood glucose management. Together we explore:
Kirsten from SA Diabetes Advocacy is on leave, so for our weekly diabetes advocacy message, Lurina Fourie kindly joins us this week in her personal capacity to encourage others with diabetes to build the diabetes community and in so doing, to build and empower themselves.
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For health professionals working in diabetes
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