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Prediabetes

October 20, 2016

Diabetes is one of the country’s fastest growing epidemics. According to the CDC, 29 million Americans are affected with diabetes and 86 million are living with prediabetes. Unfortunately, 90 percent of persons with prediabetes are unaware of their diagnosis. The good news you may ask? Both conditions can be effectively managed with lifestyle changes.

The silent epidemic we can ignore no more

July 20, 2016

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”