Hey, it's Wendy.

And it's Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast, your online resource for

delicious and nutritious living.

Hello.

How are you guys doing?

We're back again for another episode of Food Heaven Podcast.

Today we're going to be talking about a topic that is very near and dirt our heart.

We're going to talk about diabetes, how to prevent diabetes.

We both do a lot of work with diabetes prevention.

At our jobs is outpatient dietitians.

And the reason why we wanted to talk about this is because it's a really big problem for

people in our community, people of color.

And I personally suggest I have my Nana had diabetes, I have people in my family with diabetes.

And it's something that affects a ton of people.

About 9% of the population in the US has diabetes.

And about one in three people have what we call pre-dibities.

And we'll talk more about what that is.

But that's pretty much just you don't have diabetes yet, but you have an increased risk

for diabetes because your blood sugar is a little bit higher than normal.

Yes.

Like just mentioned, we have a lot of experience with people that have diabetes, especially at our jobs.

Most of my patients are either pre-dibities or they have diabetes.

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