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DO use a continuous glucose monitor
Vidmar uses CGMs to treat patients with diabetes – which is what these devices were developed for. A sensor sits on your upper arm, sending real-time blood-sugar updates to your phone. But in her clinical research, working with “young people in larger bodies”, she has also seen their benefits as a tool to help people make sustainable healthy lifestyle changes: “There’s growing research that they really can lead to overall improvements in health.”One of the key benefits is seeing in real time which foods cause blood sugar spikes and which are best for your own, deeply personal metabolic health. “And we’re learning a ton about how nutrition interacts with, say, time of day,” Vidmar says. “That’s a really important way for us to understand how to nourish our bodies, and how to educate families to nourish their children’s bodies.”Vidmar’s only caveat is that lay people need to learn how to use and interpret the near-constant data they receive: “We have to thoughtfully educate people about what this tool is and how to use it so it doesn’t be