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The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes

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. That’s why The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes takes a gradual, three-phase approach to improving diet and increasing physical activity and provides strategies for staying motivated. While offering clear guidance, the program is flexible enough that you can tailor it to your needs and abilities. The result: A way of living that improves blood sugar and helps you stave off heart disease, neuropathy, and other diabetes- and pre-diabetes-related conditions while reaching and maintaining a healthy weight. This comprehensive yet readable volume offers the information you need to protect your health whether you are controlling your disease simply with diet and exercise, are taking drugs orally, or need injected insulin.Detailed but flexible meal plans take the guesswork out of eating without making you a slave to the food scale or measuring cups. With complete nutritional analyses, the recipes for budget- and family-friendly dishes such as Vanilla Peanut Butter Smoothie, Cheesy Cornbread, and Slow-Cooked Pork ensure that you never have to sacrifice tasty food. 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, 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

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Mayo Clinic on Managing Diabetes

“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.Rating: (out of 6 reviews)

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

An indispensable, up-to-date resource for managing your diabetes from the global leader in diabetes research, care, and educationFinding 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 lifestyleBased 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.Rating: (out of 8 reviews)

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Think Like a Pancreas: A Practical Guide to Managing Diabetes with Insulin

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.

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Alternative Therapies for Managing Diabetes

Medical treatment for diabetes is fast becoming more than a traditional treatment of specific symptoms. Alternative Therapies for Managing Diabetes covers the alternative treatments available to Type 2 and maturity-onset patients and explains how to incorporate them in one’s own regimen, to benefit both the mind and body. It explains the strengths and weaknesses of various treatments, such as herbs, acupuncture, meditation, homeopathy, and magnets. Patients and doctors will find in this useful guide a safe, sensible approach to combating this common disease.

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The New Glucose Revolution Low GI Guide to Diabetes: The Only Authoritative Guide to Managing Diabetes Using the Glycemic Index (Marlowe Diabetes Library)

The New Glucose Revolution Low GI Guide to Diabetes is the only guide providing up-to-date information about using the GI to help manage Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. GI experts Brand-Miller and Foster-Powell explain why diets based on low GI foods improve blood sugar control, which types of carbohydrate are best to eat, and why many so-called “taboo” foods don’t really cause unfavorable effects. Practical tips advise how to use the GI to control one’s blood glucose throughout the day. Grocery and pantry lists detail the best foods to have on hand, and recipes cover a week’s worth of low-GI meals. Also included are GI values for hundreds of foods and beverages.

• ISBN13: 9781569243350
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Diabetes: The Complete Guide: The Essential Introduction to Managing Diabetes

The definitive guide to confronting diabetes.

A diagnosis of diabetes can be frightening, confusing and distressing. It’s a serious and progressive disease and there is no known cure. This authoritative, comprehensive guide offers clear, readable and reassuring advice on how life with diabetes can be fulfilling and enjoyable. It answers all the key questions: What is diabetes? What treatment will I have? How will I feel? How will it affect my diet?

Addressing the concerns of people with insulin-treated and tablet-treated diabetes in turn, Dr. Hillson tackles common anxieties relating to medical investigation and treatment, lifestyle and diet. Fully updated to include the latest
information on treatment and research, this book is an essential resource for those with diabetes – newly diagnosed or longstanding.

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Managing Diabetes Your Way Workbook: Living with Type 2 Diabetes

This book provides a structured, at-home program to monitor, track, and gain control of the disease. The key to this workbook’s unique program is its personalization. Since each person’s body chemistry is different, the first step is determining how different foods, types of exercise, and levels of stress affect individual blood sugar fluctuations. Managing Diabetes Your Way Workbook helps untangle the often-confusing combination of factors.Rating: (out of 1 reviews)

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