Updates are available Correction dated 2024-11-25

Article History

Received: 6 March 2024

Accepted: 19 July 2024

First Online: 21 September 2024

Change Date: 25 November 2024

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:

Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-024-06332-z

Acknowledgements

: This project was developed and administered by Canvasback Missions, Inc. of Benicia, California, with research conducted at the Canvasback Diabetes Wellness Center in Majuro, Marshall Islands.Jamie W. Spence, President and Co-founder of Canvasback Missions, Inc., served as Principal Investigator, secured federal funding, recruited research staff, and administered the project alongside Jacqueline L. Spence, Vice President and Co-founder, who served as CFO.Special thanks to Hak Jae Chung, on-site administrator for Canvasback Missions, and Ralph D. Harris (former physician at The Meridian Senior Retirement Center).Deepest gratitude is extended to the government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, particularly the Ministry of Health, for providing Marshallese staff and medical professionals, sample processing and a vacant building that Canvasback Missions built out into the Canvasback Diabetes Wellness Center. Thanks to the RMI Diabetes Wellness Clinic for their assistance in recruitment and medical care for SMC participants.An abstract and a research poster were presented virtually at the American Diabetes Association’s 82nd Scientific Sessions on 3 June 2022.

: The datasets generated during and/or analysed in the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

: Open access funding provided by SCELC, Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium. The study was supported by the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) under award number W81XWH-05-1-0547. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. Army. Additional funding for the study was provided by Canvasback Missions, Inc. CJH received support through a National Institutes of Health Predoctoral T32 Obesity Fellowship (T32 HL105349). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the views of the National Institutes of Health.

: BCD is the author of the books Defeating Diabetes and The Kick Diabetes Cookbook: An Action Plan and Recipes for Defeating Diabetes. The authors declare that there are no other relationships or activities that might bias, or be perceived to bias, their work.

: JHK designed the study, with input from JS. BCD and JHK conducted the study, including designing the menus, administering the intervention and acquiring data. CJH and CMP performed the statistical analyses and drafted the manuscript. All authors interpreted study data and revised and approved the final version of the manuscript. JHK is the guarantor of this work and, as such, had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.