The most common diabetes risk factors explained
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss key risk factors for Type 2 diabetes and prevention strategies and go over the impact of nutrition, lifestyle choices, health complications, and social determinants of health. We cover why BIPOC communities are at a higher risk and how the lack of resources plays a role in overall health.
In This Episode We’ll Cover:
- Key risk factors for Type 2 diabetes
- Prevention strategies for managing Type 2 diabetes
- The role nutrition plays on diabetes prevention
- How health complications play a role in Type 2 diabetes
- Social determinants of health and their connection to diabetes
- Why BIPOC communities face a higher risk of Type 2 diabetes
- How the lack of access plays a role in overall health disparities + MORE!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Diabetes Digital Podcast. I'm Wendy. |
| 0:03.2 | And I'm Jess and we're best friends, registered dieticians, and diabetes educators. |
| 0:08.0 | Through our telehealth platform, diabetes digital.co, we offer accessible and personalized virtual nutrition counseling for people with diabetes and pre-diabetes. |
| 0:17.0 | Visit diabetes digital.co, that's CO, to book your first appointment. We accept insurance and offer affordable self-pay options. |
| 0:24.7 | Now let's get into today's episode. |
| 0:29.5 | Welcome back to another episode of the Diabetes Digital Podcast presented by Food Heaven. |
| 0:36.5 | Before we even start this episode, we want to remind y'all the importance of going on iTunes and leaving us five stars, especially now that |
| 0:46.6 | we have this new podcast, it would be nice if you could leave some words related to the diabetes |
| 0:51.4 | content and how useful it is for you. It's super easy to do. So with that being said, we're going to jump into today's episode where we're going to be talking about risk factors and prevention for type 2 diabetes and I'm |
| 1:05.0 | specifically talking about type 2 diabetes because the risk factors for |
| 1:09.5 | type 2 are going to be completely different for the risk |
| 1:12.3 | factors for type one. |
| 1:13.8 | So it's important to make that distinction. |
| 1:16.3 | And also specifically with prevention, |
| 1:18.6 | talking about nutrition, lifestyle things |
| 1:21.4 | that we can all do to reduce our risk, especially if you're in the |
| 1:24.6 | pre-diabetes range. And just a disclaimer as always this podcast is for |
| 1:29.5 | informational purposes only and should not be considered a substitute for medical advice. |
| 1:34.0 | Now interesting fact that I want to share and we're going to talk more about it in this |
| 1:38.5 | episode but did y'all know that if you get less than seven hours of sleep regularly, diabetes can be harder to |
| 1:46.1 | manage. I was blown away by that statistic because I think so often we only want to focus |
| 1:52.2 | on diet and we're not thinking about these other things like sleep and stress. |
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