Your Diabetes Questions Answered

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Nutrition, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), more than half of the population is affected by diabetes or prediabetes. In this episode, we’ll answer your questions about diabetes, explaining what it is and outlining the different types, including type 1, type 2, gestational diabetes, and prediabetes. We’ll dive into the science behind the bodily processes that contribute to the development of these various forms of diabetes. Additionally, we’ll discuss symptoms, which can differ between men and women, the tests you should ask your doctor about, and the potential complications of unmanaged or untreated diabetes. We’ll also share nutritional tips to help lower your glucose levels and maintain a healthy blood sugar balance, reducing your risk of developing diabetes or supporting the management of an existing diagnosis.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition.
0:11.3	Today's podcast is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.
0:15.1	I'm Kara Carper, a licensed nutritionist, and a board-certified nutrition specialist.
0:20.3	So I want you to think for a moment,
0:22.7	have you recently been to the doctor and been told that your fasting blood sugar numbers
0:27.3	started creeping up a little bit too high? Did your doctor say you have pre-diabetes?
0:33.4	Or perhaps you received a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.
0:42.9	According to a study in JAMA, which is the Journal of American Medical Association,
0:50.2	more than half the U.S. adult population has either diabetes, type 2, or pre-diabetes.
0:57.4	So it's a topic that we think many of you can relate to. My co-host today is Brandy Burrow. Brandy's a licensed and registered dietitian. I always love hosting podcasts with Brandy.
1:04.1	Thanks, Kara. Likewise. Oh, I mean, you just have a great way of explaining health and
1:09.3	nutrition topics so that people can really start taking actionable steps immediately to improve their health.
1:16.3	Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that. It is a passion of mine. And I think this topic really hits home for me. It's actually something that inspired my interest in nutrition, just watching family members with diabetes develop health complications later in life.
1:33.5	So seeing that, it really made me motivated to learn more about it and understand what I could do to sort of prevent that same future for myself.
1:43.0	So it's awesome to be able to teach other people how to do
1:46.1	that very thing without, you know, going to a dietetic school. Absolutely. Yeah. So you have the
1:52.3	personal and the professional background with this. Yeah, definitely. And just knowing, you know,
1:59.4	looking at those statistics that half of Americans, adult
2:03.3	Americans, have either pre-diabetes or diabetes. That's, I mean, that's a serious thing, you know,
2:08.6	and the disease doesn't just stop at diabetes. So if this disease is not managed well, long term,
2:15.8	you can develop some really scary side effects or other health
2:19.7	issues. So I think this will be a great episode for people to pay attention to and take some
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