Years of misinformation about healthy eating, the proliferation of processed foods and growing socioeconomic challenges has resulted in separate but related epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes is now a leading dietary disease and state of metabolic disfunction that drives an inordinate amount of co-morbid conditions and costs the healthcare system — and the people in it — hundreds of billions of dollars each year.
While medical guidelines state the first line of treatment is lifestyle intervention, far too many people manage type 2 diabetes with medication.
Why?
Because far too little time is spent providing the level of lifestyle change support that people need.