"My diet was open a can and eat it or run up to the nearest fast food place," said Mike Belvin, 46, who just like many of us and had become a walking time bomb. "I'm a diabetic. So of course I had elevated blood sugar... had elevated cholesterol... had a minor cardiac event a couple of years ago. Just basically overweight. You name it I had it."
But a chance encounter on the hike and bike trail with dietitian Deirdre Earls would change his life.
"She started giving me some advise on how to take care of the problems without medication," he said.
And instead -- use diet. Mike tried it.
"Well first thing I did was lost 20-30 lbs. within six months. My blood sugar dropped where I am no longer on any medications.
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