D33 - Implementing Nutrition and Lifestyle Recommendations in Adults with T2D

Sunday, August 10, 2025

4:30 PM - 5:15 PM MST

CE/CME Hours: .75 CE

Pharmacology Hours: 0.0 CE

Diet has been identified as the most important risk factor for morbidity and mortality in the United States. This session describes how T2D prevention, treatment, and reversal is possible with Food is Medicine (FIM), specifically a whole food plant predominant diet and other lifestyle behaviors. Diabetes care and education specialists are in a unique position to educate, inspire and guide patients to use Food as Medicine and Lifestyle Behaviors as an active and empowered participant in their own health journey.

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Melissa Bernstein, PhD, RDN, LD, FAND, DipACLM, FACLM: Jones and Bartlett Learning: Royalties (Ongoing)

Primary Presenter(s)

Melissa Bernstein, PhD, RDN, LD, FAND, DipACLM, FACLM

Assoc Professor and Chair, Nutrition Department
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Cincinnati, Ohio

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Session Host(s)

Lauren Plunkett, RDN, LD, CDCES (she/her/hers)

Registered Dietitian and Diabetes Education Specialist
LP Nutrition Consulting
Saint Paul, Minnesota

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