Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, the podcast created by Nutritional Weight and Wellness,

a company focused on helping people feel better by eating real food.

Today, we're going to focus on strategies to help control your blood sugar during the holiday season.

Plus, we will go over some of the basics about type 2 diabetes.

The potential role foods like fresh

avocados can play in controlling blood sugar levels, and easy tips to incorporate more

avocados in your festive holiday plans. For those who are diabetic or have been cautioned by

their doctor of being at risk or already pre-diabetic,

it is especially important to be mindful of monitoring and managing blood glucose,

given all the extra indulgent treats that come out at this time of year.

It is always fun to do a show about how eating real foods can support

long-term health by helping prevent or better manage a chronic disease like type 2 diabetes.

I am Teresa Wagner, and with me today in studio is Leah Kleinshruitt, who is also a registered

and licensed dietitian. For years, both of us have been

teaching and counseling our individual clients about the benefits of eating real food. So great to

have you join me, Leah. Thank you, Teresa. I'm very excited to be co-hosting this episode with you. Also, a big thank you to our sponsor for today's show. Fresh Avocados, Love One Today, a leading source of the healthiest reasons and tastiest ways to enjoy fresh avocados. As a science-based resource, loved one today provides turnkey solutions that make it

easy for consumers as well as health professionals to stay on top of the latest research related

to avocados. Okay, great. Let's dive in, shall we? Let's start by talking about what it means to have

high blood sugar and why it's important

to keep it in your target range.

Insulin is a hormone made by your pancreas that acts like a key to let your blood sugar

into the cells in your body for use as energy.

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