I really have to scratch my head when I read headlines and articles like this one published yesterday in USA Today. Is there anyone in the diabetes community who doesn’t know this? And how many people, not in this community, who have diabetes don’t know this? I hate to admit it, but probably enough to make this headline seem like news.

I know that from the ten years I spent criss-crossing the country as a peer mentor speaking to groups of PWDs largely at their support group meeting. But then I say, shame on their health practitioners for not communicating or making sure their patients understood this.

So the bullet point is a new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that if we avoid high-carb, highly processed animal products we’ll live longer and have a reduced risk for cardiovascular disease and cancer.