When I am discussing the value of physical activity with patients I will often start bending my left ring finger repeatedly and tell the patients that, "I can lower glucose just by doing this. However it is a small muscle and it will take a lot of repetitions." The goal …

  Dr. Joe Houmard talks about how, if we all began working on “weight maintenance” immediately after leaving high school, it would reduce our national health care expenditure phenomenonally. Instead, the focus is on “weight loss” rather than healthy, gradual physical fitness. Joe Houmard, Ph.D. has been at East Carolina University …

In this week’s Homerun Slides, we continue with the 2015 ADA Guidelines with slides on: Correlation of A1c With Average Glucose, Management of Hypoglycemia, and Bariatric Surgery in Type 2 Diabetes….