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The Diabetes Association, Inc. (DAI) offered a grocery shopping tour at the Pleasant Street PriceRite grocery store to teach members of the Latino community how to select and prepare foods that are compatible with a diabetic diet. Since the rate of diabetes is higher among people of Hispanic descent. DAI Hispanic Diabetes Outreach Coordinator Grace Diaz has teamed up with Stanley Street Treatment and Resources (SSTAR) dietitian Joan Barrett to present information in the very place that food selection decisions are made. Topics included ways to trim grocery bill and eat foods recommended for diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. This event was one of many presented entirely in Spanish to members of the growing Latino population in Fall River. Click here for photos of the heart health presentation. Click here for more photos of the Latino Adult Support group. For more information about the group please contact Grace Diaz at 508-672-5671.
 

(Top row, left and center) DAI Community Health Worker Grace Diaz talks with Joan Barrett about the selection of asparagus available at the PriceRite market on Pleasant Street in Fall River. (Top Row, right) Miguel Martinez and Nilyan Vera listen as Omar Vera poses some questions. (Middle row, right) Two-year-old Angel Martinez enjoys the event along with his great grandmother Maria Aviles and Luz Helena Matta.

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