Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought you by nutritional weight and wellness.

I am Melanie Beasley, and I'm here today with Brittany Vincent, and we are both registered and licensed dietitians.

And today, Brittany and I are tackling a topic that affects millions of people.

Here's the good news.

For many, it's largely preventable.

We're talking about diabetes, specifically type 2 diabetes,

and more importantly, how to avoid developing it in the first place.

A startling statistic from the CDC is that nearly half of adults in the U.S. are pre-diabetic.

That is crazy.

That is a very alarming statistic.

It's not how it was even 20 years ago.

No.

And vast majority of them don't even know they have it.

And that's the scary part because it can be doing some damage when you don't know.

But we really want this conversation today to be hopeful because when people hear the words pre-diabetes or insulin resistance or they have a high A1C,

they often feel like they're on a runaway train.

But the message we want to share today

is that there is so much that you can do with food

and lifestyle to support a better blood sugar

and a better long-term health to prevent that scary diabetes diagnosis

and any side effects that can come from having diabetes.

And I would say if you already have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, keep listening

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