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Who: Family and Sports Medicine Doctor, Medical Director Liz Joy.
What: Liz Joy specializes in helping obese or diabetic people enroll in programs that
can help them stay healthy and fit. Dr. Joy informed us on what diabetes is and what her
program has to offer to help people who have diabetes or are obese. If a diabetic or
obese person is to join this program they would lose 5 to 7% of their body weight. This
is about ten pounds, but to a diabetic person this weight can be meaningful. Native
Americans, Hispanics, and Polynesians are at the highest risk of getting diabetes. If
people are more informed about this, they can help prevent diabetes. Dr. Joy talked to
us on how her program helps in preventing and informing people about diabetes, she
also wants to try out text messaging to diabetic people to remind them to stay fit. FitBit
is a bracelet and app that can help you stay on track on exercising and staying healthy.
Dr. Joy also talked to us about how having Physical Education (P.E) at schools can help
in preventing kids from getting diabetes. If children get at least 60 minutes of vigorous
activity each day their risk of getting diabetes when they are older can lower
dramatically. Dr. Joy talked to us about how 245 billion U.S dollars each year are spent
on the treatment of diabetes. During our meeting with Liz, she showed us her office and
we were very impressed. She did not have a chair, she had a treadmill!
Dr. Joy has also talked about substance use for Adults and Adolescents. Utah has a
high number of people using prescription medicine to overdose. Dr. Joy said this might
happen because the main religion here emphasizes on no drugs, So these people take
painkillers because they think that since its prescribed by a doctor it should be okay to
overdose. Substance use since 2003- 2004 was ranked the highest for non medical use
of pain relievers.
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