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Diabetes For Dummies

Author: Visit Amazon's Alan L. Rubin Page | Language: English | ISBN: 1118294475 | Format: EPUB

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Title

Diabetes For Dummies Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies Diabetes Meal Planning & Nutrition For Dummies Type I Diabetes For Dummies

Guide Type

Reference

Cookbook

Planning Guide

Reference

Audience Level

Newly Diagnosed Diabetics

All Diabetics

Newly Diagnosed Diabetics

Pages

408

392

384

360

List Price

$22.99

$19.99

$22.99

$21.99

Publication Date

September, 2012

January, 2010

October, 2013

February, 2008

Author(s)

Rubin

Rubin and James

Smithson and Rubin

Rubin

Imprint

For Dummies

Print Book

1118294475

0470536446

1118677536

0470178116

Kindle Book

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B00F2JFQNA

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Edition

4th

3rd

1st

Brief Description

The latest info on medications, monitoring equipment, diet, exercise, treatment, and more. Trusted, expert, reassuring, guidance.

Create 100+ healthy, delicious, diabetic friendly meals that parallel American Diabetes Association recommendations.

Nutritional advice for diabetics, examples of meal plans for diabetes & optimal weight maintenance, and diabetic exchange lists.

All you need to know & do to make living with type 1 diabetes easier & healthier from monitoring technologies to diet & exercise.

From the Back Cover

The straight facts on treating diabetes and living a full life

Want to know how to manage diabetes? Leading diabetes expert Dr. Alan Rubin gives you reassuring, authoritative guidance on putting together a state-of-the-art treatment program. You'll learn about all the advances in monitoring glucose, the latest medications, and how to develop a diet and exercise plan to stay healthy.

Dealing with diabetes — get helpful guidance on understanding the different types of diabetes and dealing with the emotional and psychological consequences of your diagnosis
Diabetes and your body — find out what you need to know about both the short- and long-term complications of diabetes
Thrive, don't just survive — discover the dietary changes you need to make to control your blood glucose and how to get the most out of your exercise routine and medications
Manage diabetes — recognize the way that diabetes develops at every stage of life (and how to manage it successfully)
Stay on the cusp — get the scoop on all the newest developments in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating diabetes (and the real deal on misinformation in diabetes treatment)

Open the book and find:

The symptoms and causes of type 1 and type 2 diabetes
The tools available to treat diabetes
Info on diabetes in children and the elderly
The 4-1-1 on glucose monitoring and other tests
A type 2 diabetes diet plan
What you need to know about medications
Considerations for occupational and insurance problems
Delicious diabetic-friendly recipes

Learn to:

Reduce your type 2 diabetes risk
Monitor and maintain your glucose
Eat right and exercise to stay healthy
Treat and prevent short-term and long-term complications

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Paperback: 408 pages
Publisher: For Dummies; 4 edition (September 11, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1118294475
ISBN-13: 978-1118294475
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Introduction 1

Part I: Dealing with the Onset of Diabetes 7

Chapter 1: Dealing with Diabetes 9

Chapter 2: It’s the Glucose and the Hemoglobin A1c 19

Chapter 3: Defi ning the Various Types of Diabetes 31

Part II: How Diabetes Affects Your Body 49

Chapter 4: Battling Short-Term Complications 51

Chapter 5: Preventing Long-Term Complications 65

Chapter 6: Diabetes, Sexual Function, and Pregnancy 99

Part III: Managing Diabetes: The “Thriving with Diabetes” Lifestyle Plan 117

Chapter 7: Glucose Monitoring and Other Tests 119

Chapter 8: Diabetes Diet Plan 151

Chapter 9: Keep It Moving: Creating Your Exercise Plan 175

Chapter 10: Medications: What You Should Know 195

Chapter 11: Diabetes Is Your Show 227

Chapter 12: Putting Your Knowledge to Work for You 237

Part IV: Special Considerations for Living with Diabetes 243

Chapter 13: Your Child Has Diabetes 245

Chapter 14: Diabetes and the Elderly 261

Chapter 15: Occupational and Insurance Problems 269

Chapter 16: What’s New in Diabetes Care 281

Chapter 17: What Doesn’t Work When You Treat Diabetes 289

Part V: The Part of Tens 299

Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Prevent or Reverse the Effects of Diabetes 301

Chapter 19: Ten (Or So) Myths about Diabetes That You Can Forget 307

Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Get Others to Help You 313

Part VI: Appendixes 319

Appendix A: Dr W W Web 321

Appendix B: Glossary 331

Appendix C: Mini-Cookbook 339

Index 369

This book was given to me free for review. This is the fourth edition of the book Diabetes for Dummies, and it is an information packed book. It is not necessarily a book that one reads cover to cover in one sitting; the book contains too much information to retain all at once. Additionally, this book has the greater emphasis on Type 2 diabetes, though Type 1 is mentioned. Apparently the author has a separate book for Type 1 Type 1 Diabetes For Dummies. This book assumes that the reader knows absolutely nothing about Diabetes, so some information may be redundant for some people. The author covers just about any and every body part that can be damaged by diabetes, and that seems to be almost everything. He also provides a glossary of terms, websites that might be useful, and a lot of extra resource material. What did not work for me, is the A1C chart without the corresponding blood glucose level in an easy to read format. I guess I needed more ease of reading without having to extrapolate information from the paragraphs. I also thought the recipes were an unnecessary add-on, and I would have preferred a week or two of sample menus, with recipes where needed. Fitting diabetic eating into the whole of my day is the key issue, not how to make a salad. The book

If you're new to the diabetes game, there's a good chance you're suffering from information overload. Anything from worrying whether or not you should exercise (heart risk), to learning what foods you can and cannot eat -- it all adds up to a lot of confusion. This new installation in the Dummies series (actually an update to an earlier Diabetes for Dummies edition) will prove eminently helpful. It's mainly oriented to the recently-diagnosed. But anyone who's looking to get a good grip on what Diabetes is about will find the book useful.

The main sections of the book are as follows, as well as some of the topics covered in each section:

Part 1 -- Dealing with the Onset of Diabetes -- Defines the different types of diabetes, and explains blood sugar and insulin.

Part 2 -- How Diabetes Affects Your Body -- Short- and long-term complications, including sexual and pregnancy issues.

Part 3 -- Managing Diabetes: The "Thriving with Diabetes" Lifestyle Plan -- Glucose monitoring, diet, exercise, medications.

Part 4 -- Special Considerations for Living with Diabetes -- Diabetic children and elderly, occupation and insurance issues, recent medical developments, what doesn't work.

Part 5 -- The Part of Tens -- Preventing diabetes, myths, getting help.

Final Verdict: This book will serve anyone well who needs to get their feet wet on the subject of diabetes. The information is comprehensive and user-friendly. Recommended.

If you're looking for a low-impact exercise plan, you may want to check out Get Fit in Bed: Tone Your Body & Calm Your Mind from the Comfort of Your Bed.

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