Doctors and nurses in regular clinics aren’t getting enough help or training from diabetes researchers to use proven lifestyle tips—like better eating and exercise—to stop people from getting type 2 diabetes.

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One Size Does Not Fit All: Complexity of Lifestyle Interventions in Primary Care T2D Prevention – Supporting Weight Loss and Weight Loss Maintenance

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The study shows that helping people change their diet and exercise habits to prevent diabetes is hard in regular doctor’s offices, partly because providers aren’t always trained in how to help people stick to these changes — which supports the claim that better teamwork and training are needed.

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One Size Does Not Fit All: Complexity of Lifestyle Interventions in Primary Care T2D Prevention – Supporting Weight Loss and Weight Loss Maintenance

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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.1004694

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