It's time for Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionist Darlene Cavist.

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.

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Well, welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition.

I'm Darlene Kavis, licensed nutritionist, and certified nutrition specialist.

This show is brought to you by Nutritional Weight and Wellness, a company providing life-changing nutrition specialist. This show is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness, a company providing

life-changing nutrition education and counseling. You know, why is nutrition education so important

today? Well, when President Obama signed into law the health care bill, the president emphasized

prevention as a way to contain health care

cost. We know the traditional prevention model relies heavily on early detection of disease,

not on prevention. I believe early detection is a too late prevention approach. Every day we read

in the newspapers that the bulk of health care costs are spent treating preventable, degenerative

diseases that frankly are draining this country's financial resources.

This week, the childhood obesity type, childhood type 2 diabetes story appeared in several of our

local papers, and it was even covered on national TV.

And the experts are finding the commonly used adult diabetes medications are not working very well or very

long for children with type 2 diabetes, which means these children as they become adults will have

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