Correction to: A Practical Guide to Delivering Nutritional Advice to People with Diabetes.

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A Practical Guide to Delivering Nutritional Advice to People with Diabetes.

Dietary advice is fundamental to the management of diabetes. Although ideally such advice should be delivered by a state-registered dietitian, it is more usually delivered by other health professionals. The primary focus for those with type 1 diabetes is carbohydrate counting and insulin adjustment and for the majority of people with type 2 diabetes, weight management is key.

Diabetes and Diet: A Patient and Dietitian's Perspective.

This article has been co-authored by a patient with type 2 diabetes and a specialist dietitian. Here they discuss the patient's experience and difficulties with controlling weight and strategies that can help a patient in this situation. The patient discusses how stress and her corresponding comfort eating dampened weight loss progress, and how adopting a lifestyle change aided through group support helped to deal with this.

Community Interventions for Health can support clinicians in advising patients to reduce tobacco use, improve dietary intake and increase physical activity.

Aims And Objectives: To increase clinical interventions to reduce modifiable risk factors for noncommunicable disease in low- and middle-income countries.

Background: Noncommunicable disease is the leading cause of death in the world and is common in low- and middle-income countries. Risk factors for noncommunicable disease are modifiable and health professionals are in an unique position to intervene and influence them.

Successful up-scaled population interventions to reduce risk factors for non-communicable disease in adults: results from the International Community Interventions for Health (CIH) Project in China, India and Mexico.

Background: Non-communicable disease (NCD) is increasing rapidly in low and middle-income countries (LMIC), and is associated with tobacco use, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity. There is little evidence for up-scaled interventions at the population level to reduce risk in LMIC.

Methods: The Community Interventions for Health (CIH) program was a population-scale community intervention study with comparator population group undertaken in communities in China, India, and Mexico, each with populations between 150,000-250,000.

Reducing Health Risk Factors in Workplaces of Low and Middle-Income Countries.

Objective: To reduce risk factors in workplace settings in low- and middle-income countries.

Design And Sample: Workplace interventions were utilized as part of the Community Interventions for Health program, a nonrandomized, controlled study undertaken in three communities in China, India, and Mexico. Exactly, 45 industrial, 82 health and 101 school workplace settings with a target population of 15,726.

High rates of child hypertension associated with obesity: a community survey in China, India and Mexico.

Background: Hypertension is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and epidemiological evidence suggests that it is increasing in parallel with obesity in children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries.

Aim: To identify and determine the relationship between overweight, obesity and hypertension in a community sample of school children.

Methods: Anthropometric data were collected from 12,730 school children aged 12-18 years in China, India and Mexico as part of the Community Interventions for Health programme, an international study evaluating community interventions to reduce non-communicable disease by addressing the three main risk factors of tobacco use, unhealthy diets and physical inactivity.

An intensive education programme for people with type 1 diabetes.

In the year 2000, approximately 330,000 people in the UK had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (Williams and Pickup, 2000), and this number is growing yearly. It is usually diagnosed in children and young adults although it can occur at any age. The onset of diabetes is usually sudden and results from destruction of the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas leading to a total loss of insulin secretion.

The role of nutrition in diabetes.

The author provides an overview and update on the current nutritional recommendations for diabetes and advice on methods of putting theory into practice.

The role of diet and exercise in type 2 diabetes prevention.

Although traditionally seen in middle aged and older people Type 2 diabetes, which is associated with obesity, poor diet and lack of exercise, is increasingly being diagnosed in children and young people who are overweight. Studies from around the world point to the usefulness of diet and exercise regimens in preventing onset of this illness.