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Chef shares healthy eating habits
Residents learn about diabetes, how to cook on a budget
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Celebrity chef Charles Mattocks offers snacks of deviled eggs made with hummus during a stop Wednesday by his Diabetic You Mobile Tour at Northeast Georgia Medical Center’s Lanier Park campus. The chef talks and meets with folks learning about the disease and offers information for people to learn more about diabetes and common complications, such as diabetic foot ulcers. Visitors received a free yearlong subscription to Diabetic Living magazine.
Area residents received an educational treat about healthy cooking and preventing and living with diabetes. Celebrity chef Charles Mattocks, who has been featured on “The Dr. Oz Show” and other popular lifestyle shows, stopped by the Northeast Georgia Medical Center at Lanier Park in Gainesville on a chilly Wednesday afternoon to demonstrate healthy cooking practices. The visit was part of Mattocks’ nationwide Diabetic You Mobile Tour, with recipes, samples and information geared specifically toward those affected by diabetes.