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Why food deserts complicate diabetes treatment
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Prescribing glucose-lowering drugs to someone who can only afford ultra-processed junk is the medical equivalent of putting a band-aid on a bullet wound. Endocrinologists are finding that standard Type 2 diabetes treatments like Metformin are functionally useless when patients live in food deserts and are forced to survive on high-fructose corn syrup from discount stores.
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