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REVIEW article

Front. Nutr.
Sec. Nutritional Epidemiology
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1418683

A Nutrition-Focused Review of the Interventions in US-Living Latino Communities with Type II Diabetes

Provisionally accepted
Mélanie Guirette Mélanie Guirette 1*Magdalena Sevilla-Gonzalez Magdalena Sevilla-Gonzalez 2,3,4Maureen Balaguera Maureen Balaguera 5A. E. Caballero A. E. Caballero 5
  • 1 Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, United States
  • 2 Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • 3 Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • 4 Programs in Metabolism and Medical & Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, United States
  • 5 Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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    Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a chronic, debilitating disease that disproportionally affects the Hispanic/Latino community residing in the United States. Optimal nutrition therapy is fundamental to the proper management of T2D and must be culturally adapted to facilitate permanent behavior change in this population. This review selected and assessed the nutrition components of interventions aimed to improve T2D outcomes in US based Latinos/Hispanics, published from 2002 to 2023. An overview of the participant characteristics, nutrition intervention, and dietary assessment and outcomes is included. Nutrition interventions in this community benefit from the inclusion of bicultural registered dietitian nutritionist (RDNs) to assure the counseling team promotes culturally tailored nutrition recommendations based on current dietary guidelines. Nutrition assessment and outcomes should be captured with the use of validated dietary assessment tools and dietary quality indices appropriate to their target population. Standardizing these practices will facilitate intervention comparability and replicability and ultimately better target the needs of this community.

    Keywords: Hispanic or latinos, type 2 diabetes, Cultural relativism, Medical nutrition therapy, Dietary assessment methodologies

    Received: 26 Apr 2024; Accepted: 06 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Guirette, Sevilla-Gonzalez, Balaguera and Caballero. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Mélanie Guirette, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, United States

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