Think Like a Pancreas: A Practical Guide to Managing Diabetes with Insulin--Completely Revised and Updated Author: Visit Amazon's Gary Scheiner Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0738215147 | Format: PDF
Think Like a Pancreas: A Practical Guide to Managing Diabetes with Insulin--Completely Revised and Updated Description
Review
DiabetesMine.com, 2/21/12
Think Like a Pancreas covers essentially anything and everything you’d need to know about living with diabetes.”
About.com, 3/1/12
This highly practical, humorous, and detailed guide covers it all.”
Eat Healthy, Live Well (blog), 3/8/12In his down-to-earth approach he offers a plethora of innovative out-of-the-box tips for taking care of the everyday, literal and figurative, ups and downs of diabetes using insulin
a terrific addition to your diabetes bookshelf.”
Library Journal, 3/29/12Striking a balance between a casual and professional tone, Scheiner presents this material in an approachable manner
Recommended for public and consumer health libraries, especially those with the first edition.”
HealthCentral.com, 8/21/12
So readable that I found myself wanting to read every word of it when I picked it up with the intention of just skimming through it
The best guidance anywhere for people using insulin or thinking about it.”
Diabetes Forecast, February 2014With the author’s amiable voice and reasonable take on diabetes management, this is a far cry from a stuffy disease book.”
About the Author
Gary Scheiner, MS, CDE, is a certified diabetes educator, insulin-pump user and trainer, and exercise physiologist. He serves on the board of directors of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and lives in Pennsylvania.
- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books; Second Edition edition (January 24, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0738215147
- ISBN-13: 978-0738215143
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Gary Scheiner's first edition of this book was excellent, it's hard to believe that he could improve on it so much.
Full disclosure: I've used Gary's services at Integrated Diabetes Services and benefited greatly from his help. My diabetes technology blog is mentioned in the book. I have had type 1 diabetes for 40 years, this book informed and motivated me.
Think Like a Pancreas starts with Gary's diabetes diagnosis story - this guy really gets diabetes because he's had Type 1 since 1985. He has used many different types of diabetes insulin pumps, blood glucose meters, and continuous glucose meters (CGM).
The second chapter (What's the Dang Diddly Point?) focuses on the reasons why blood glucose (BG) control is important. Instead of telling you just about 'complications', Gary explains that improved control will give you energy, reduce your appetite, keep you healthier, and give you the ability to lift cars with one hand. OK, I'm just kidding about the last one. But this chapter is motivating and empowering, you'll WANT to work at improving you BGs after reading this one.
As he says at the start of the chapter "Taking care of diabetes is really just an ongoing series of small sacrifices, costs, mental efforts, and time commitments." We're never going to achieve perfection, but we can constantly improve diabetes control.
I was excited to get my hot off the press copy of the new and improved (2nd edition) of Think Like a Pancreas: A Practical Guide to Managing Diabetes with Insulin written by, in my humble opinion, one of the go-to-experts today for people with diabetes who take insulin, Gary Scheiner, MS, CDE. What I love about Gary (yes, I'm a member of his fan club), is that he is tremendously knowledgeable and at the same time extremely practical. In his down-to-earth approach he offers a plethora of innovative out-of-the-box tips for taking care of the everyday, literal and figurative, ups and downs of diabetes using insulin.
A big plus of Think Like a Pancreas is Gary's writing style. It's easy-to-read in part because he dovetails his dry wit and fun-loving personality to make, what's dry as a bone material, into a page turner.
Throughout the book Gary creates imagines and uses metaphors to teach and make his points. And if you're a sports fan, you're in luck. Gary is. Therefore many of his metaphors are sports related....I believe baseball and basketball are his favs.
Here's an example, on the very important topic of timing of rapid acting insulin: "However, people with diabetes are like a baseball player with very slow reflexes. We're in the batter's box facing a pitcher who throws 98-mph fastballs; by the time we swing, the ball is already in the catcher's mitt. Rapid-acting insulin that is injected takes about 15 minutes to start working, sixty to ninety minutes to peak, and three to five hours to finish working..."
The book starts with Gary's story about the onset of his diabetes and a bit about how he has managed for now more than 30 years. But that just helps you get to know Gary.
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