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part of the Greater
Fall River Fitness Challenge. Registered Dietitian Amanda Raposo of the
Southcoast Health Diabetes
Management Program came to the Fall River YMCA on January 25,
2017 and spoke to a group about how to either prevent or manage diabetes
by reducing
dietary carbohydrates and increasing fat. Ms. Raposo, who has been successfully
recommending low-carb high-fat diets for the patients she treats that
include food
choices that do not have high amounts of carbohydrates but that
contain healthy fats. People in the group talked about some of the
challenges they have in managing their diabetes and Ms. Raposo gave them
suggestions that they could follow to keep the amounts of carbohydrates
they eat low to keep from increasing their blood sugar levels. Click here for
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(Top row) Registered
Dietitian Amanda Raposo of the Southcoast
Health Diabetes
Management Program explains how diabetes results when the body cannot
handle the amount of carbohydrates that someone consumes, resulting in
high levels of sugar (glucose) in the blood. (Row two) Mrs. Raposo
displays a book that list the carbohydrate contents of common foods and
recommends that people read the labels of all the food they buy to see
how much they are eating. (Row three) Ms. Raposo goes on to describe how
cells become insulin resistant, much like too many people trying to
crowd onto an already full subway car, so that blood sugar can increase
to dangerous levels. (Bottom row) Ms Raposo responds to questions and
suggests ways that they can limit carbohydrates so keep their blood
sugar at healthy levels.
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video of the presentation.