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Subscribing to Inclusive Diabetes Care untangles seven types of stigma within diabetes care. You’ll discover new ways to foster a sense of belonging and reduce the invisible barriers that prevent sustainable self-care. Using the IDC Pyramid, healthcare professionals can tap into the power of inclusion to create more equitable, effective care systems.

This resource is authored by Megrette Fletcher, M.Ed., RDN, CDCES—co-founder of the Center for Mindful Eating (2006–2024) and a registered dietitian with over 30 years of experience in compassionate, person-centered diabetes care.

What’s Included:

  • Access to original articles exploring the IDC Pyramid and how to apply it in real-world practice

  • Contributions and interviews with experts on inclusion, stigma, and sustainable care

  • Full access to Connecting the Dots: Stigma and Diabetes Care at InclusiveDiabetesCare.com

  • The Knot: Recorded conversations to deepen your understanding of inclusion in organizations

  • The Inclusive Diabetes Care Education Program — 13 recorded videos, including topics like Spotting Weight-Biased Research by Margit I. Berman, PhD

There are no portals to log into or apps to navigate—just direct, thoughtful insights delivered straight to your inbox.

About Inclusive Diabetes Care

Our Vision: To untangle the many forms of stigma in healthcare.
Our Mission: To provide professional education programs that explain how stigma contributes to health inequity.

We provide:

  • In-depth guidance on seven types of stigma affecting people with prediabetes and diabetes

  • Education grounded in the IDC Inclusion Pyramid, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing

  • Practical tools for building more inclusive, nonjudgmental care practices

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AI Policy

Inclusive Diabetes Care has the following General Artificial Intelligence tools policy to explain how this newsletter uses AI to create factual content following this policy.

Marketing Strategy and Social Media Content: AI assists in marketing, SEO strategy, and hashtags for this newsletter and generates social media copy.

Content Generation: Megrette Fletcher has written about a weight-inclusive approach since 1994. During this time, she has written five books and hundreds of lay and scientific articles surrounding mindful eating, diabetes, and weight-inclusive care. She uses Chat GPT to help her evaluate her existing content and identify potential topics and gaps in information.

Drafts and Editing: When AI is used for articles, it is asked to rewrite her existing scientific or professional content to be appealing or relevant for Inclusive Diabetes Care readers.

Citations: Anara, and Research Rabbit are the AI program that are used for research. All research is verified as accurate. Research is cited using Chicago or APA format.

Image Creation: AI-generated images are currently rarely or not used. AI is used to write the alt text for images.

Copy Editing: Grammarly and Chat GPT are used to edit articles and improve readability.

Show Notes: Riverside (recording and editing podcast/video platform) which has a builtin AI is used to edit podcast and video content. NoteBook LM has been used to create audio podcasts. These podcasts are created from my existing writing and are cited as AI generated.

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