The Joslin Guide to Diabetes: A Program for Managing Your Treatment (Fireside Books (Fireside))

The Joslin Guide to Diabetes: A Program for Managing Your Treatment (Fireside Books (Fireside)) Review

An indispensable, up-to-date resource for managing your diabetes from the global leader in diabetes research, care, and education

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 Everything Guide to Managing and Reversing Pre-Diabetes: Your complete plan for preventing the onset of Diabetes (Everything (Health))

The Everything Guide to Managing and Reversing Pre-Diabetes: Your complete plan for preventing the onset of Diabetes (Everything (Health)) Review

A pre-diabetes diagnosis diagnosis is a wake-up call. And with this book, you can make the lifestyle changes you need to ensure your good health. Certified Diabetes Educator and Registered Dietitian Gretchen Scalpi provides helpful tips not only on what to eat and when, but how to prepare delicious healthy foods such as:

• Honey Oat Bran Bread
• Layered Veggie Casserole
• Cold Roasted Red Pepper Soup
• Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
• Strawberry-Banana Sorbet

Reversing a diagnosis can be daunting, but with this guide, you learn to take the process one step--and one meal--at a time.

The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes

The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes Review

LET BOB GREENE HELP YOU TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR HEALTH AND CLAIM THE LIFE YOU DESERVE!BOB GREENE has helped millions of Americans become fit and healthy with his life-changing Best Life plan. Now, for the first time, Oprah’s trusted expert on diet and fitness teams up with a leading endocrinologist and an expert dietitian to offer a Best Life program tailored to the needs of people with diabetes and pre-diabetes. Coping with the unique challenges of living with these conditions can feel like a full-time job, but The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes gives you a gradual, three-phase plan designed to improve your blood sugar and stave off heart disease, neuropathy, and other diabetes- and pre-diabetes-related conditions. Whether you are controlling your disease simply with diet and exercise, taking drugs orally, or need injected insulin, this comprehensive volume gives you all the information you need to stay healthy and motivated. Detailed but flexible meal plans take the guesswork out of eating, and recipes for budget- and family-friendly dishes come with complete nutritional analyses. Extensive reference sections, including a complete guide to diabetes drugs and a chart of the carbohydrate value of foods, give you quick answers you can trust, while a log for tracking your blood sugar readings, exercise, diet, and medication helps you stay organized without hassle or added expense.

With The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes, you won’t have to let your life be defined by your diagnosis.

Managing Preexisting Diabetes and Pregnancy: Technical Reviews and Consensus Recommendations for Care

Managing Preexisting Diabetes and Pregnancy: Technical Reviews and Consensus Recommendations for Care Review

Offers a single resource for American Diabetes Association standards of care for pregnant women with preexisting diabetes - type 1 (DM1) or type 2 (DM2). It providers up-to-date recommendations and treatment protocols for the management of diabetes and pregnancy to researchers, academic physicians, and clinicians who deal with the broad spectrum of problems.