A clinic's approach to new patients involves fasting, blood draws, evaluation, and a teaching breakfast focused on real food options like whole grain bread and natural peanut butter.

“So what we do, we bring all of the new patients in on the same day. We see all the new patients on one day. It's like chaos. And they all meet with a dietician. They come in fasting and we draw their blood and we evaluate them. And then they all sit down at a communal table and we do an hour-long teaching breakfast. And the dietician narrates why those foods are available for breakfast. So whole grain bread, natural peanut butter, you know, not Skippy Jif Peter Pan, but, you know, the real stuff, plain yogurt, et cetera.”