not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened - Episode 8 with Bridget McNulty

Welcome to 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'! Episode 8 - now with listeners in 8 countries!

This Episode is brought to you by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes.

If you are a person living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you are in the right place!

Join us on our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness and ultimately change lives for the better!

Our deliberations will always be honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we discuss real people, their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

This week, Stan and Michael remind our southern hemisphere listeners about getting their flu jab, and chat about married couples and increased or decreased risk of type 2 diabetes in the partner who does not have diabetes.

We welcome our studio guest, writer, author and diabetes advocate par excellence, Bridget McNulty

• Bridget reflects on producing our weekly ‘Sweet Life Diabetes Community Advocacy Message’
• We discuss the transformation of language and imagery used in diabetes education and advocacy and Bridget shares her experiences in a recent exciting Sweet Life photo shoot
• Bridget shares her journey into and her constructive and collaborative approach to diabetes advocacy - this has resulted in a groundswell of advocacy efforts in South Africa and in the formation of organisations like the Diabetes Alliance (www.diabetesalliance.org.za) and SA Diabetes Advocacy (www.diabetesadvocacy.org.za), and the in the first National Diabetes Summit
• Bridget laments the lack of data in South African diabetes management and
• she personally introduces the next Sweet Life Advocacy Message – "Here’s what people with diabetes wish their diabetes care team knew – Mental Health plays a huge part in our blood glucose readings!”

We also 

• discuss the importance of mental health as a pre-requisite to successful diabetes self-management and
• Introduce the last in a series of ‘Essential Tools for your journey in Diabetes Care’ – Who am I? The core values that drive our eventual behaviours

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