By Jasmine Browley ·Updated April 24, 2024
Per the Office of Minority Health, in 2018, African American adults were 60 percent more likely than non-Hispanic white adults to be diagnosed with diabetes by a physician.Data also suggests that racism and lack of access to quality care is exacerbating the diabetes epidemic, pushing diabetes patients to a higher likelihood to heart disease, and twice as likely to die than others without diabetes.
Jessica Jones and Wendy Lopez aren’t allowing that to happen without a fight.
The registered dietitians and entrepreneurs founded Diabetes Digital, the latest venture from their media brand Food Heaven; it is a virtual nutrition counseling service aimed at >told Huffpost in 2019. “So if this is what wellness is positioned as and they feel like wellness is just not something that is for them, it’s important that we have different representations of what wellness means — for black people, for people who have different body sizes, for people who have physical limitations.”
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