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Participants
in the Greater
Fall River Fitness Challenge and the Fall
River Parent Academy who attended the eighth presentation in the
weekly series, "How
to Lose Weight Without Going Hungry" on March 5, 2016 heard Dr.
David Weed and Southcoast Health
Registered Dietitian Amanda Raposo talk about Type 2 diabetes and how low
carbohydrate, high fat diets can reduce or even eliminate dangerous levels
of blood sugar. Dr. Weed also discussed how bariatric surgery can also
lower blood sugar, though diabetes returns in about forty percent of
patients if they resume a high carbohydrate diet. Based on
the approach to reducing obesity
by reducing
dietary carbohydrates and increasing fat, Click
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(Top row) Participants help
themselves to over thirty articles on low-carb diets as well as recipes
for foods that work well on a low-carb diet. (Row two) Dr. Weed is
joined by Southcoast
Health Registered Dietitian Amanda Raposo for a presentation on
diabetes and why a low-carb, high-fat diet can reduce insulin resistance
and high blood sugar. (Bottom two rows) Participants talk among
themselves and help themselves to more articles following the
presentation.
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video of the presentation,