Going Virtual: Eliminating the Intimidation Factor of In Person Diabetes Support Groups

In this episode, Laurence Girard talks with Sky Owens, a registered dietitian and a lifestyle couch for Fruit Streets Digital Diabetes Prevention Program. Prior to joining Fruit Street, Sky worked for several years with inperson diabetes prevention groups, so she certainly has extensive insight regarding the benefits of virtual diabetes prevention groups compared to inperson groups. In this episode, Sky and Laurence discuss: How virtual diabetes support groups, according to Sky, have less of that intimidation factor because you re just on a video screen. How with online classes, lifestyle coaches like Sky can interact with participants every day (whereas this type of daily coach interaction is relatively unheard of with inperson classes). Sky talks about one participant who had glucose in the prediabetes range when he started Fruit Streets DPP ten weeks ago. Using the goals section of the Fruit Street platform, he regularly updates his food logs and