That counseling on diet, exercise, and stress management is usually pretty low impact or expensive. My coworker who was trying to handle pre-diabetes mostly got a few pamphlets and brochures before being referred to specialists.
And those folks were expensive too. He spent months following various strategies from the specialists. One had him eating small amounts of carbs all day long, so he was munching on corn chips all day everyday. Not sure it helped. But that was the kind of support and help the US medical system was providing a proactive pre-diabetic: an expensive one that pushed corn chips.
Also the boss was diabetic too and they’d discuss things. One phenomena the boss had was when he went to Europe for a few weeks every few years his diabetes mostly self regulated and didn’t need insulin. Stress was his #1 but also tended to accept his diet was way better on the Mediterranean.
That counseling on diet, exercise, and stress management is usually pretty low impact or expensive. My coworker who was trying to handle pre-diabetes mostly got a few pamphlets and brochures before being referred to specialists.
And those folks were expensive too. He spent months following various strategies from the specialists. One had him eating small amounts of carbs all day long, so he was munching on corn chips all day everyday. Not sure it helped. But that was the kind of support and help the US medical system was providing a proactive pre-diabetic: an expensive one that pushed corn chips.
Also the boss was diabetic too and they’d discuss things. One phenomena the boss had was when he went to Europe for a few weeks every few years his diabetes mostly self regulated and didn’t need insulin. Stress was his #1 but also tended to accept his diet was way better on the Mediterranean.