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Please join us for Episode 53 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast for both people living with diabetes and health professionals that facilitate diabetes care!

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Once again, 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, and the new range of CDE MiWell™ (https://cdeonline.co.za/miwell/) Reduced Calorie products.

Whether 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 kick-off by reminding our listeners of the effects of shift work on sleeping, eating, working and living with diabetes.

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This week, diabetes advocate Gabriela Richter, encourages health professionals to remember that everyone is unique and that their care needs are also unique.

We are joined in studio this week by Charlotte Meschede, a registered dietitian specialising in clinical nutrition and lifestyle education for diabetes and women's health. Charlotte recently joined the CDE Academy as a nutrition and education consultant - with her vast clinical, life, mothering and farming experience behind her, we are proud to have Charlotte as part of our team!

Charlotte shares her accumulated wisdom and reflects on:

• The rise of diabetes and metabolic disorders in the late 1970s
• Working as a young dietitian and farmer while focussing on motherhood
• Food messaging and healthy eating in young children with diabetes
• How to reduce parental anxiety around eating in kids
• The invigorating changes in medical nutrition therapy over the years
• Healthy eating as being just one of many contextual factors in managing diabetes
• Our varied relationships with food
• The importance of families eating healthy foods together
• Facilitating healthy nutrition in older and possibly sicker adults
• The principles behind ‘natural food grocery shopping with Charlotte’
• ‘Red flags’ for disordered eating or eating disorders
• Eating well on a budget
• Understanding food labelling
• Take home pearl - we need to listen!

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, email us @ Podcast@CDEDiabetes.co.za

For health professionals working in diabetes

The 6-Module, 23 CPD point CDE Academy Very Low-Calorie Diet Course for Healthcare Professionals can help you assist your clients with excess adiposity and type 2 diabetes to improve their cardiometabolic risk profile, reduce their chronic medication burden, doses and costs and possibly achieve remission of their diabetes. More information and registration @ https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/vlcd-course/

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://my.learna.ac.uk/l/diabetes-ambassador-cde