Sunday, 4. July 2010
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Written by an international authority on diet and diabetes, this diet and exercise program is based on long-term clinical experience and, unlike many other diabetes diet books, has been proven to control and prevent diabetes.
The Diabetes Revolution: A groundbreaking guide to managing your diabetes
Thursday, 6. May 2010
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“Mayo Clinic on Managing Diabetes” offers sound advice on controlling the disease and living as normal a life as possible. In this book, readers will learn: the different types of diabetes; symptoms, risk factors, and how diabetes is diagnosed; the best ways of monitoring your condition; how to develop a healthy eating plan; the latest cutting edge therapies; and what complication to watch for, and how they can be prevented.
Wednesday, 24. March 2010
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Finding out that you have diabetes immediately raises questions about the condition, its treatment, and its impact on your future. Why did I get diabetes? What will I have to do to treat it? How will my future health be affected by having diabetes? What will my life be like? Getting accurate answers to these and many other questions will determine how well you are able to live with diabetes.
This completely updated edition of The Joslin Guide to Diabetes will help provide the answers you need. It’s an easy-to-understand resource that explains not only the types of diabetes treatment but also every aspect of diabetes self-management, including:
• Meal planning and carbohydrate counting
• Monitoring blood glucose
• Administering insulin and taking oral medications
• Treating high and low blood glucose
• Using physical activity to help control diabetes, maintain good health, and reduce the chances of future problems
• Successfully fitting diabetes into your lifestyle
Based upon research and the clinical experience of the world-renowned Joslin Diabetes Center and written by physician and diabetes expert Richard S. Beaser, M.D., and nutritionist and diabetes educator Amy Campbell, R.D., M.S., C.D.E., this book will help those with diabetes integrate the medical treatments and lifestyle changes necessary to learn how to live healthfully with this condition.
The Joslin Guide to Diabetes: A Program for Managing Your Treatment
Saturday, 20. March 2010
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Tuesday, 9. March 2010
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Dozens of books offer advice on managing diabetes, but few focus specifically on the day-to-day issues facing those who use insulin. Now Gary Scheiner, a certified diabetes educator and himself an insulin user himself since 1985, gives you the tools to “think like a pancreas”–that is, to successfully master the art and science of matching insulin to the body’s ever-changing needs. Free of medical mumbo jumbo, comprehensive, and packed with useful information not readily available in other books, Think Like a Pancreas discusses:
• day-to-day blood glucose control and monitoring
• designing an insulin program to best match your lifestyle
• measuring insulin to carbohydrate intake and physical activity
• the pluses and minuses of different insulin-delivery methods
• optimal management of diabetes using an insulin pump
• hypoglycemia—the best ways to avoid it and treat it
• the impact of emotions, stress, illness, and aging
• making the best use of your health care team and community resources
• plus dozens of other issues that everyone taking insulin needs to understand and master.
Think Like a Pancreas: A Practical Guide to Managing Diabetes with Insulin
Monday, 8. March 2010
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As a parent of a child diagnosed with diabetes, you are faced with overwhelming, and sometimes frightening, questions like: Will my child be able to eat sweets again? How will I ever be able to let them go out on their own? What is the newest technology and how can it help my child? Is a cure really on the horizon? The Everything Parent’s Guide to Children with Juvenile Diabetes helps you cope with the challenges of helping your children live happy, healthy lives while controlling the disease. This reassuring, easy-to-use guide features advice on:
Thursday, 18. February 2010
It is extremely important for diabetics to manage their weight to help keep them healthy, and it can be used as a preventative measure before getting diabetes. Of course, it is healthy for everyone to manage their weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle, but in the case of diabetes even more so.More than four out of every five people diagnosed with diabetes are overweight, and it is a fact that people who are overweight are at greater risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Being overweight makes diabetes a lot harder to control, and by losing weight you can help to control your blood glucose levels, your blood fats (including cholesterol) and your blood pressure. There is a lot you can do to help manage your weight, including maintaining a healthy diet.When it comes to cooking you can do a number of things to help manage your weight, and adapt recipes to make a lower-fat version. There are many specially adapted diabetic recipes available which can help you lose weight in a number of ways. It is generally a good idea to cook using these recipes instead of purchasing ‘diet’ meals from supermarkets, where you cannot be sure whether their replaced ingredients will do more harm than good.Diabetic recipes will make use of low-fat products and avoid excess fats in meals by grilling instead of frying, for example. If you are worried about your fat intake then these recipes can be a healthy way of eating great food and of helping you to lose weight along the way.
If you want to help control your diabetes or you want to manage your weight then you can use my free diabetic recipes that you receive weeky when subscribing to my diabetic recipe newsletter.
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Thursday, 18. February 2010
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A comprehensive guide to managing diabetes from the author of The Best Life Diet, complete with a three-phase program, meal plans, and recipes.