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Get Well Acadiana Episode 11 – How To Beat Diabetes & Obesity (AUDIO)
How do you beat diabetes and obesity?
In Episode 11 of “Get Well Acadiana,” Dr. Kevin tackles these two issues and how they tend to work hand-in-hand with each other.
To know how to beat diabetes, you need to know what it is and how it forms. Dr. Kevin educates you on this deadly disease and how it also relates to Alzheimer's. He takes you back to the pre-diabetes stage by explaining to you the symptoms it contains and how you can correct it.
Dr. Kevin also explains how diabetes starts at childhood for many people and what programs they offer to children who suffer from pre-diabetes and obesity.
He also reveals how leptin is important in controlling diabetes, which is not a blood sugar problem but an insulin problem.
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