With minorities at risk, doctors work to make diet advice hit home

From the Wall Street Journal:

Medical professionals who care for patients with diabetes are adapting their dietary and lifestyle advice to be more culturally sensitive.

With 50,000 diabetes patients speaking scores of languages and eating similarly varied cuisines, New York’s 11 public hospitals have mounted a campaign to tailor treatment and counseling to their ethnicities. Tactics including multilingual handouts, electronic data-sharing and on-site cooking lessons have helped doctors there and elsewhere make inroads against diabetes in communities with some of the highest rates of the disease.

The goal is to make health advice more accessible, and the results are promising. With photos showing appropriate portion sizes in food ordered from ethnic restaurants in Queens, NY. Registration required.

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