Tag: diabetes prevention

• Functional Medicine in Modern Medicine

  Functional medicine emerged in the early 1990s as a response to the growing burden of chronic illness in modern healthcare. Biochemist Jeffrey Bland and his wife, Susan Bland, founded the Institute for Functional Medicine in 1991, establishing a framework designed to treat the root causes of disease rather than merely suppressing symptoms. Rooted in systems…

  H. Collier

  August 17, 2026

  Medicine

  diabetes prevention, Functional Medicine, healthcare

• The CDC National Diabetes Prevention Program

  The National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) is a CDC-led, evidence-based public health initiative designed to help adults with prediabetes or a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes prevent or delay the onset of the disease through sustainable lifestyle changes. Congress authorized the CDC to establish the National DPP as a public-private partnership designed to create a nationwide…

  H. Collier

  July 7, 2026

  Healthcare Strategy

  CDC, diabetes prevention, Lifestyle Medicine, pre diabetes