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Type 2 Diabetes, Pre-Diabetes, and the Metabolic Syndrome

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Dietary management and control is crucial to any diabetic therapeutic strategy to normalize plasma glucose, reduce postprandial excursions, reduce obesity, and regulate lipid and protein metabolism and homeostasis. Unfortunately, because of poor patient compliance, lack of self control, inadequate patient education, and the ease of obtaining fast foods, dietary management for type-2 diabetes is only partially successful [1].

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    Ronald A. Codario MD, FACP (Clinical Instructor in Medicine)

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Codario, R.A. (2011). Nutrition. In: Type 2 Diabetes, Pre-Diabetes, and the Metabolic Syndrome. Current Clinical Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-441-8_4

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