Description

Dr. Oberg explains what families can do to help their kids not develop diabetes even when there is a genetic pattern.

Transcript

When families are inheriting risk factors for diabetes, several things are going on. Of course there’s the biology of how our body handles blood sugar, but there’s all the eating behaviors and rituals that we have around food and how we cook that we inherit as well. So, families that eat whole foods together, that sit down at the table together to share meals, have lower risks of diabetes and we actually see that in the research that sitting at the table and sharing meals is protective against diabetes.