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Advocating Powerhouse Fruits & Vegetables, Christine Tran
Advocating Powerhouse Fruits & Vegetables, Christine Tran
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Fruits and vegetables are great, but they are not all created equally. In 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a study on which fruits and vegetables contain the most nutrients for preventing cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.
The top 41 have been named "Powerhouse Fruits and Vegetables."
Creating A Guide For Patient Self-Management Of Weight Loss (For Management Of Diabetes), Kelsey Preston
Creating A Guide For Patient Self-Management Of Weight Loss (For Management Of Diabetes), Kelsey Preston
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
In my first week working with Dr. Flynn, I saw more patients coming in with a diagnosis of diabetes than those without; this is likely untrue, but it certainly felt like that. I realized how big of an issue diabetes really is, and hoped to work on a project targeted towards diabetes. While I noticed medical and medicinal management of patients with diabetes was adequate, there was a large gap in patient self-management of their diabetes – they followed their prescriptions, but did not seem to have changed other aspects of their lives, most importantly, their diets.