{"id":17525,"date":"2016-08-10T10:36:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T17:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalfitnessnetwork.org\/public\/public\/?p=17022"},"modified":"2016-08-10T10:36:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T17:36:47","slug":"a-call-for-diabetes-education-for-the-millions-of-americans-who-need-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/all-mfn\/a-call-for-diabetes-education-for-the-millions-of-americans-who-need-it\/","title":{"rendered":"A Call for Diabetes Education for the Millions of Americans Who Need It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are 30 million Americans today with diabetes and 86 million Americans with pre-diabetes. An estimated thirty percent of them will go on to get Type 2 diabetes. Yet few physicians send their patients who can benefit from diabetes education to diabetes educators &#8211; those specifically trained to help people manage diabetes. Why? I talked with the current and Past-Presidents of the American Association for Diabetes Educators to find out why, and to learn about the imperative of diabetes self-management education for all who need it.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full Huffington Post article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/riva-greenberg\/why-are-we-ignoring-diabe_b_8923616.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 30 million Americans today with diabetes and 86 million Americans with pre-diabetes. An estimated thirty percent of them will go on to get Type 2 diabetes. Yet few physicians send their patients who can benefit from diabetes education to diabetes educators &#8211; those specifically trained to help people manage diabetes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":4593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-17525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-mfn","tag-diabetes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}