Robin Nwankwo

TL;DR: The ADA also recognizes the integral role of nutrition therapy in overall diabetes management and has historically recommended that each person with diabetes be actively engaged in self-management, education, and treatment planning with his or her health care provider, which includes the collaborative development of an individualized eating plan as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Technology-assisted tools including Internet-based social networks, distance learning, DVD-based content, and mobile applications may be useful elements of effective lifestyle modification to prevent diabetes.

TL;DR: Although the treatment of diabetes has become increasingly sophisticated, with over a dozen pharmacological agents available to lower blood glucose, a multitude of ancillary supplies and equipment available, and a clear recognition by health care professionals and patients that diabetes is a serious disease, the normalization of blood glucose for any appreciable time is seldom achieved.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether the characteristics of retail food stores where African-American women shopped mediated the association between their income and intake of fruits and vegetables, and found that women with higher per capita incomes were more likely to shop at supermarkets than at other grocers, which in turn was associated with intake.

TL;DR: There was a 58% relative reduction in the incidence of diabetes in the intervention group compared with the control subjects, and a strong correlation was also seen between the ability to stop the progression to diabetes and the degree to which subjects were able to achieve one or more of the following.