Perspectives & Resources for Your Practice

Tip Sheets

• Weight and Type 2 Diabetes: What's the Link? 

  This new ADCES resource illustrates the role insulin plays in turning food into energy and the link between weight and Type 2 diabetes.  It will help you explain to your clients and patients the benefits of losing even a small amount of excess weight on multiple clinical parameters. Also available in Spanish

Blogs

• Understanding the Screening Guidelines for Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes

  Find out how an evidence-based guideline can support your own system’s screening, awareness building, and referral efforts to diabetes prevention and diabetes self-management.

• High-Dose Weekly GLP-1 RAs: An Exciting Option for Diabetes and Obesity Management 

  Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) are effective diabetes agents because they reduce cardiovascular events, improve glycemic management and promote weight loss. Fortunately, two agents in the GLP-1 RA class (dulaglutide and semaglutide) have data evaluating higher dose options than originally approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 

• Is Weight Bias and Weight Stigma a Public Health Problem? 

  Can diabetes care and education specialists simultaneously work toward the prevention of obesity and eating disorders? Weight-related issues do not occur in isolation and there is a growing body of scholarship that acknowledges that obesity and eating disorders co-occur in individuals and have risk factors in common. This post will explore two overarching commonalities - weight bias and stigma.  

• Research Demonstrates that Motivational Interviewing Impacts Weight Loss in Overweight Children and Women 

  Talking about weight loss can be an anxiety-producing conversation for both the person carrying extra weight and for the diabetes care and education specialist trying to find a comfortable way to bring the sensitive topic up. Learn how motivational interviewing is an approach that eases the anxiety of these conversations.

Certificate Course

• Person-Centered Care for Individuals who have Higher Weight: A Certificate Program (8 CE)

  Diabetes care and education specialists interact with people whose disease and complications may have manifested as a result of the individual having a higher weight. Although many diabetes care and education specialists have deep knowledge in caring for people with higher-weight bodies, there are simply not enough of them to provide care to the number who need it. The entire care team should be educated to a validated level of understanding. This activity is open to all healthcare professionals and will educate the broad HCP inter-professional care team to apply best practices in caring for individuals with higher weight bodies.