By Nick Tabor, New Era Senior Staff Writer
Many
of the 18,600 or so Pennyrile residents living with diabetes have no access to
classes on diet, blood sugar and disease-management techniques, a local
dietitian said.
Theresa
Clark, who owns the Diabetes Resource Center of Hopkinsville, drives all over Western Kentucky to give diabetics counseling and
classes. But this area, squarely inside what a federal agency calls the
“diabetes belt,” needs more help, she said.
Now
Clark’s clinic is one of just 10 organizations in the U.S. to get a
grant for educating more diabetics.
She’ll
soon launch free satellite classes in Elkton, Cadiz and Central City. They’ll be in
community centers, like libraries or senior-citizen centers.
“You
know, a lot of people don’t have the financial ability to come all the way to Hopkinsville,” she said.
