It's time for Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionist Darlene Kivist. Each week,

Darlene explains a connection between what you eat and how you feel. Stay tuned to hear practical,

real-life solutions for healthier living through good nutrition. Dishing up nutrition is brought to you

by nutritional weight and wellness. Slow down. You move too fast. You got to make a mom.

Welcome, everyone, producing up nutrition.

I'm Darlene Kavis, licensed nutritionist.

And today's show is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness, a company

specializing in life-changing nutrition information.

Because many of you have already started that holiday overeating of processed carbs and sugars,

you know, the cookies, the pies, the crackers, we thought today would be a good day for

reality check. So do you realize that 67% of the population is overweight? So let's put that in a little bit of perspective.

If you gather up 10 of your friends for dinner,

seven of you will be overweight.

And many of you may be on your way to being diabetic.

Because there's another reality check,

24 over, actually over 24 million people in the United States have diabetes already,

and the number has been growing.

So now, some way, somehow, we need to get serious about our eating.

Through the month of December, we're going to focus on how you can start the new year

without additional weight. And that would be kind of nice, wouldn't it? So joining us as our co-host

today is Kara Carper. Car is a licensed nutritionist, and she sees clients in both our St. Paul

office and our Wizzetta office. So good morning. Welcome. Good morning,

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