Stan and Clarence chat with Teresa Ambroz and Julie Dalton about childhood diabetes.Teresa manages the Diabetes and Health Behavior Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health guiding efforts to prevent diabetes and improve the lives of all Minnesotans affected by diabetes and arthritis.Julie is the Diabetes Prevention Planner at the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Division overseeing strategies related to implementing, spreading, and sustaining evidence-based, family-centered childhood obesity interventions.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's show is on childhood diabetes, which, you know, from my perspective, is kind of sad that we actually have to talk about childhood diabetes. But we're seeing increased numbers, and we'll get into that in just a moment. We have a great
We have great guests with us today that can really shine some insight into the whole concept of childhood diabetes. Stay tuned for that. We've got a great crew that always makes our podcasts successful. They include Maddie, Levine, Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, and Sharon Nygaard, who do our background research for all of our shows.
And by the way, for our listening audience, all the research that we have for our shows is made available on our website. Sheridan Nygaard also does marketing for us. And then, of course, we have Matthew Campbell, who's our production manager and gets all the shows out to you, the listening audience, with nice music attached on the front and back, etc.
So look forward to hearing this show next week. You'll hear it In about a week. In addition, Clarence Jones is my colleague who helps co-host this show. He's a great, great colleague, provides community input and perspective on this. And also today we have Dr. Barry Baines, who's our clinical director. advisor that'll provide some insight from the medical point of view as well.
So thanks to everybody. Finally, Human Partnership. is our community sponsor. I suggest that you see, you check out their website at humanpartnership.org. It's a great community organization that does wonderful things in the health arena. So thank you to them. So today, As I said, we're going to be talking about childhood diabetes. We've got two great guests.
Actually, I should say colleagues of mine who I've worked with in the past, and they're really, really great, great colleagues and friends. Teresa Ambrose manages the Diabetes and Health Behavior Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health, and she guides efforts to prevent diabetes and improve lives of all the people that are involved with diabetes, whether you're a caregiver or an actual person.
Her career is focused on well-being and the prevention of chronic disease in health systems, schools, early child care, work sites, community settings, etc. She's a registered dietitian. We've had Teresa on the show previously talking about nutrition, and I encourage you to listen to that show as well. So thank you, Teresa, for being with us today. Also, Julie Dalton.
who I also had the pleasure of working with. She always has a great smile when she does all of her work. And she's the diabetes prevention planner at the Minnesota Department of Health in the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Division.
Currently, she oversees strategies to implement and spread and sustain evidence-based family-centered childhood obesity interventions as it relates to diabetes and has quite a long history over 15 years of public health practice and experience. These are really experts in the field, and I'm sure that you, the listening audience, will enjoy hearing from them. So thank you, Teresa and Julie.
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