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A diabetes diagnosis is a wake up call for many people to improve lifestyle habits and practice weight management. In this video, HealthMaker Samuel Klein, MD, explains how this step is overlooked by both patients and doctors.
Weight management is the key principle of treating diabetes, but it's the one that's used the least because it's till difficult to implement effective weight management, so we go to medications for treating diabetes. Even though the step one therapy is lifestyle, increase in physical activity, decrease in food intake, those are things that are usually ignored by physicians and health care providers, because 1 they don't know how to provide that therapy and that therapy is not reimbursed.
Samuel Klein, MD, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University School of Medicine, is a nutritional specialist known for his research into weight loss and the causes of obesity.
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