Diabetes Education
No matter what age you are or the kind of diabetes you have—Type 1, Type 2 or Gestational—it affects your body and your life. At the Mankato Clinic, we’re committed to treating and monitoring your diabetes with our ADA recognized Diabetes and Nutrition Education Center. Our highly skilled, multidisciplinary healthcare team professionals are trained with the latest information on diabetes to help ensure early detection and treatments that focus on you, from head to toe.
Our main goal is to work with you to keep your sugar levels under control through oral antidiabetic medications, insulin, food and/or exercise, ensuring a future of health and happiness.
We care for and specialize in the following:
- Pediatric Type I Diabetes Patients
- Adult Type II Pump Starts
- Adult Type II Glucose Monitoring Consultations
- Advanced Insulin Delivery Systems
- Pathophysiology of Diabetes
- Nutrition Counseling
- Obesity and Weight Control
- Counseling Diabetes Education
Nutrition Education
Our approach to healthy weight loss starts with the client's relationship with food and their body image. Working together, personal goals will be created that meet your body's nutritional needs and help address emotional connections with food. With a meaningful understanding of the nutritional, physiological, and behavioral issues of the mind and body, you can create balance to promote a higher quality of life. Our goal is to help each person make small changes that will provide lifelong results.
The Nutrition Education Center offers medical nurtition therapy for a variety of health-related concerns including:
- Cholesterol Management
- Chronic diarrhea/constipation
- Eating disorders
- Food Allergies/intolerance
- Gastric bypass: pre-consults and post-refresher
- Gastrointestinal disorders (GERD, Crohn's disease, celiac disease, irritable bowel syndrome, diverticulitis, gallbladder disease)
- Gestational Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Hypoglycemia, reactive/non-reactive
- Metabolic syndrome
- Osteoporosis
- Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
- Prenatal nutrition
- Underweight or unintentional weight loss
- Vitamin and mineral deficiencies
- Weight loss/management in both and adult and pediatric populations
- Wound healing/pressure ulcers
- Sports nutrition
- Healthy nutrition/meal planning
- Vegetarianism
Diabetes and Nutrition Education Center is located at the Main Street location; lower level between the lab and diagnostic imaging departments.
Diabetes and Nutrition Education Center Directory:
Main Street
1230 East Main Street, Mankato
507-389-8572
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