About one third of the adult American population is obese, and diabetes is growing at an epidemic rate in both adults and juveniles. Driven by personal experience with type 2 diabetes and the belief that there is a severe lack of understanding and knowledge about the body and physiological processes at work in diabetes and obesity, Rob Taub has become a type 2 diabetes advocate and one of four ambassadors for Know Diabetes By Heart, a joint venture between the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association.

The goal is to increase awareness and education surrounding this all-too-common and gravely detrimental disease. He joins the podcast today to share all of the insights he’s learned.

By tuning in, you will discover:

• The degree to which genetics contribute to the development of diabetes
• What Taub has personally found to be the best treatment for type 2 diabetes treatment
• Why diabetes is on the rise despite an increase in the availability of pharmaceuticals to treat it

For more information, check out knowdiabetesbyheart.org.

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