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Adding this nutrient, found in beans, whole grains, and vegetables, helps slow digestion and keep blood sugar steady.
What is fiber?
When blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not high enough for a diabetes diagnosis, it’s called this.
What is prediabetes?
These popular injectable medications help reduce appetite, but can cause nausea, vomiting, and sometimes muscle loss if nutrition isn’t managed.
What are GLP-1 receptor agonists (such as semaglutide or tirzepatide)?
This food is the only natural substance that never spoils.
What is honey?
This newly formed organization, led by an interim board and supported by the Diabetes Program is dedicated to elevating and supporting CHWs and employers across the state.
What is the Vermont Association of Community Health Workers (VTACHW)?
Pairing carbohydrates with these two nutrients can help prevent blood sugar spikes.
What are protein and fat?
This type of diabetes often develops in adults and is linked to insulin resistance.
Answer: What is Type 2 diabetes?
Extreme versions of this common weight loss method can slow metabolism, cause fatigue, and lead to nutrient deficiencies.
What is restrictive dieting?
This vegetable was the first food grown by humans in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1995.
What is a potato?
"Insulin can be taken by shot or pump. Are you now taking insulin?" is just one of the 2026 questions posed by the Diabetes Team for this annual survey.
What it what is the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance Survey?
Activities like strength training help control blood sugar by increasing this type of tissue that stores and uses glucose.
What is muscle?
Sometimes called “Type 1.5,” this slow-developing autoimmune diabetes is diagnosed in adults who may first appear to have Type 2.
What is LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults)?
This once-popular weight loss drug combination was banned after being linked to serious heart and lung problems.
What is fen-phen (fenfluramine and phentermine)?
Ketchup was once sold in the 1800s as a medicine to treat this condition.
What is indigestion?
19% Vermont adults in this category have diabetes, a rate significantly higher than the general population.
What are Veterans?
This organ’s main job is to make insulin, a hormone that helps control blood sugar.
What is the pancreas?
This rare form of diabetes is caused by genetic changes that affect insulin production and is often diagnosed in youth.
What is monogenic diabetes (or MODY)?
Dumping syndrome, an event that can occur when water floods the colon in response to carbohydrate intake, often resulting in sudden uncontrollable emptying of the bowels, is a nasty side effect of this weight loss strategy.
What is bariatric surgery?
This common fruit is actually a berry, but strawberries are not.
What is a banana?
"Workshop registration confirmation is sent to participant. This includes the Zoom link and other details regarding the schedule and materials." Is a step is this diabetes team member's workflow.
In people with type 1 diabetes, the immune system mistakenly destroys these cells.
What are insulin producing Beta cells of the pancreas?
Though not an officially recognized category this form of diabetes develops when the pancreas is damaged by another condition—such as pancreatitis, cancer, or cystic fibrosis—leading to insulin deficiency.
What is Type 5 or secondary diabetes (or pancreatogenic diabetes)?
These pills or supplements cause temporary water loss but don’t lead to real fat loss—and can result in dehydration and electrolyte imbalances.
What are diuretics?
This fruit was once so rare and valuable in Europe that wealthy people rented them just to show off at parties.
What is a pineapple?
The My Healthy VT Program Specialist from this hospital is responsible for managing workshop logistics, like scheduling workshops.
What is North Country Hospital?