In this episode, Laurence talks with Sky Owens, a registered dietitian and a lifestyle couch for Fruit Street’s Digital Diabetes Prevention Program.

Prior to joining Fruit Street, Sky worked for several years with in-person diabetes prevention groups, so she certainly has extensive insight regarding the benefits of virtual diabetes prevention groups compared to in-person 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 in-person classes).

* Sky talks about one participant who had glucose in the prediabetes range when he started Fruit Street’s DPP ten weeks ago. Using the goals section of the Fruit Street platform, he regularly updates his food logs and all his health information. Since then, he’s been setting new goals frequently, and has utilized every tool that the program has to offer. To date, he’s lost 10 pounds and is getting close to his former weight.

* How the Fitbit trackers are often the number one motivating factor for participants who want to prove their overall health.

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