Hilltop Club Health & Wellness Education Event

A Dietary/Lifestyle Approach to Prevent and Reverse Type-2 Diabetes

Join Nutrition Therapy Practitioner (NTP) Jerry Casados with a class on a Dietary/Lifestyle Approach to Prevent and Even Reversing Type-2 Diabetes.

Type 2 diabetes is increasingly prevalent but also largely preventable.

A whole-food, plant-based diet has been shown to prevent and even reverse type-2 diabetes in many studies and research.

Here are some of the statistics.

Fast Facts on Diabetes

Diabetes

• Total: 37.3 million people have diabetes (11.3% of the US population)
• Diagnosed: 28.7 million people
• Undiagnosed: 8.5 million people (23.0% of adults are undiagnosed) –
• 1 in 5 don’t know they have diabetes

Prediabetes

• Total: 96 million people aged 18 years or older have prediabetes (38.0% of the adult US population)
• 65 years or older: 26.4 million people aged 65 years or older (48.8%) have prediabetes
• More than 8 in 10 adults don’t know they have prediabetes

Cost

• $327 billion in total medical costs and lost work and wages for people with diagnosed diabetes. This cost is expected to rise with the increasing diagnoses.
• Medical costs for people with diabetes are more than twice as high as those without diabetes.

Topics that will be covered in class:

• Understanding the Primary Cause of Type-2 Diabetes
• Dietary Intervention Trials / Studies / Success Stories
• Why a Plant-Based Diet for Diabetes
• Foods & Steps to Transition to a Plant-Based Diet for Type-2 Diabetes
• Nutrients in Plant Food
• Calorie Density for Healthy Weight Loss

Presentation: 55 minutes with Q&A after.