Promote education on diabetes for a healthier tomorrow

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Nov. 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, the International Sweeteners Association (ISA) is delighted to resume its assist to World Diabetes Day (WDD) for the eleventh consecutive 12 months, becoming a member of the decision to motion from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) to focus on the necessity for higher entry to high quality diabetes education to guard tomorrow.¹

Promoting higher entry to diabetes education
More than half a billion persons are at present dwelling with diabetes worldwide and thousands and thousands extra are susceptible to creating diabetes. One in two individuals with diabetes don’t know they’ve the illness and stay undiagnosed. Importantly additionally, it’s predicted that by 2030 the variety of adults dwelling with diabetes will rise to 643 million, and to 784 million by 2045.² Therefore, individuals dwelling with diabetes want entry to ongoing diabetes education, together with on vitamin, to grasp their situation and perform the every day self-care important to staying wholesome and avoiding issues.

Join the workshop organised by the Mexican Diabetes Federation
Healthcare professionals are invited to affix the workshop organised on twenty third November 2022 from 5:00 to 7:00pm, Mexico City time (midnight to 2:00am CET on 24^th November), by the Mexican Diabetes Federation (Federación Mexicana de Diabetes – FMD) and supported by the ISA on the theme ‘Uses and benefits of low/no calorie sweeteners’. More info on the programme and registration is accessible here.

Discover the newest dietary tips for weight problems and diabetes administration
A webinar by the European Federation of Associations of Dietitians (EFAD) and its European Specialist Dietetic Network (ESDN) on Obesity happening in November 2022 (precise date TBC) will current the newest dietary tips for weight problems and diabetes administration, together with in regards to the function of sugars and low/no calorie sweeteners. More info shall be out there quickly.

Education on low/no calorie sweeteners can assist individuals dwelling with diabetes: ISA marketing campaign for WDD 2022
Both well being professionals and other people dwelling with diabetes must have higher entry to vitamin education in diabetes, together with in regards to the function of low/no calorie sweeteners in diabetes management.

Low/no calorie sweeteners provide individuals with diabetes broader meals selections by offering the pleasure of candy style with out affecting blood glucose management.³ Studies present that not like carbohydrates, low/no calorie sweeteners don’t increase blood sugar degree,^4,5 and that individuals with diabetes can use them safely. This can be recognised by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) which authorised the well being declare that low/no calorie sweeteners used as a alternative for sugars induce a decrease blood sugar rise after consumption in comparison with sugar-containing meals and drinks.⁶

The ISA web site supplies quite a few academic supplies on low/no calorie sweeteners’ function in diabetes, together with recordings of previous webinars and scientific events, in addition to various resources for healthcare professionals which have been developed with the goal to offer evidence-based scientific info on the security, use, function and advantages of low/no calorie sweeteners, such because the infographic: ‘Low/no calorie sweeteners in diabetes’ and the media factsheet ‘Diabetes and Blood Sugar Control with Low/no Calorie Sweeteners’.

ISA actions for World Diabetes Day have been endorsed by diabetes organisations together with the Brazilian diabetes affiliation⁷(ANAD), the Colombian Diabetology Federation⁸ (FDC), the Mexican Diabetes Federation⁹ (FMD) and the Brazilian Federation of Diabetes’ Organisations¹⁰ (FENAD).

Share the ISA marketing campaign for World Diabetes Day 2022 on social media with your pals, household and community through the use of the devoted hashtags #ISA4WDD, #WDD2022 and #EducationToProtect.

Follow @SweetenersAndU, ISA Facebook and LinkedIn pages, and subscribe to the ISA YouTube channel to seek out out extra about this marketing campaign and webinars and to advance your information on what may be executed to stop or handle diabetes!

More details about ISA actions for World Diabetes Day is accessible here.

ISA Video to Promote education on diabetes for a healthier tomorrow – ISA helps World Diabetes Day 2022 is accessible here.

REFERENCES

1. World Diabetes Day (WDD) 2022. Available at: https://worlddiabetesday.org/
2. IDF Diabetes Atlas. Available at: https://diabetesatlas.org/
3. Diabetes UK. The use of low or no calorie sweeteners. Position Statement (Updated December 2018). Available at: https://www.diabetes.org.uk/professionals/position-statements-reports/food-nutrition-lifestyle/use-of-low-or-no-calorie-sweetners
4. Nichol AD, Holle MJ, An R. Glycemic affect of non-nutritive sweeteners: a systematic evaluate and meta-analysis of randomized managed trials. Eur J Clin Nutr 2018; 72: 796-804
5. Greyling A, Appleton KM, Raben A, Mela DJ. Acute glycemic and insulinemic results of low-energy sweeteners: a systematic evaluate and meta-analysis of randomized managed trials. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2020; 112(4): 1002-1014
6. EFSA Scientific opinion on the substantiation of well being claims associated to intense sweeteners. EFSA 2011 Journal 9(6): 2229, and 9(4): 2076
7. Federación Diabetológica Colombiana
8. Federación Mexicana de Diabetes

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