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Obesity

Obesity and Diabetes: Diabetes patients are considered obese when they have a Body Mass Index over 30. Such patients are at greater risk for a host of other problems cardiovascular disease, cancer, sleep apnea, and poor quality of life. Tremendous research is being done to control, manage, and reverse obesity in diabetics and the educated healthcare professional can help.

Dr. Tim Garvey Part 2, Defining Obesity

In Part 2 of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Tim Garvey talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed at the 2016 AACE Meeting in Boston about the two-fold diagnostic criteria for obesity. Dr. Tim Garvey, MD, FACE is the professor and chair of the Department of Nutrition Sciences at the …

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