Quotes by Beth Dziengelewski

“When you look at the epidemic of obesity in this country, which is not going away anytime soon, you can quickly see how the number of people with type 2 diabetes is skyrocketing. It truly is going to become a health care crisis because there are not enough practitioners, educators, or programs out there to help these people.”

“As part of treatment we talk about weight loss, but for most of our patients, this is really where they really get stuck. For a lot of our patients losing weight is a motivation factor; many of them are not making a conscious effort to be physically active on a regular basis.”

“Its a lot cheaper to pay $75 for an educator visit than it is to pay thousands of dollars for a major surgery because of a diabetes complication. How (insurance companies) are looking at this is very backwards.”

“You can take all of these medications, but theyre not getting to the major source of the problem, which is an overweight society. Its quite a battle and your heart goes out to these people because diabetes is something they think about all the time - it can consume them.”