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A guide to help you control diabetes with innovative combinations of alternative and traditional healing regimens
If you or a loved one are one of the millions of people diagnosed with Type 1 or 2 diabetes, you may have wondered how your medication interacts with a particular herb or vitamin . . or what happens to your blood glucose levels when you perspire profusely in a Jacuzzi . . . or if too little fat in your diet is as bad for your health as too much fat.
The latest medical research provides illuminating answers to these and many other pertinent questions about the best way to treat diabetes. But with more options available than ever before, how can you know which ones will work best for you?
Now Diana Guthrie paves the way to responsible decision-making by integrating conventional medicine and holistic healing to promote health and alleviate many of the symptoms associated with diabetes. As Guthrie explains, improving your physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual responses to stress can significantly enhance your immune system. By coupling your tried-and-true treatment with the basic components of an alternative approach positive thinking, assertiveness, relaxation, exercise, nutrition, and touch you can improve your health and control your blood glucose levels.
In Alternative and Complementary Diabetes Care, you will find many inspiring strategies for a comprehensive self-care program, including:
* Stress management techniques
* Exercise programs Nutrition therapy
* Self-care methods such as therapeutic massage and touch
By mapping out the elements of a full, balanced health program, Alternative and Complementary Diabetes Care promotes a responsible, holistic approach to diabetes without suggesting that traditional management practices be replaced. With this informative guide, learn how to help your health professional to help you.
Amazon.com Review
"This is not a book to answer all your questions about the use of alternative or complementary care, but it is a resource from which you may choose to make decisions and learn the guidelines for making such decisions," explains author Diana Guthrie. She organizes the content into the "PARENT" approach: Positive thinking, Assertiveness, Relaxation, Exercise, Nutrition, and Touch (or Treatment). She emphasizes practices that aren't likely to do any harm, and are likely to do some good (such as journaling, biofeedback, hypnotherapy, walking, and yoga) rather than the more controversial alternatives.
The nutrition chapter ("Foods and Folly") is too accepting--she presents detailed summaries of the major diet plans, including bestselling diets, but doesn't pass judgement on any of them, instead just passing along the authors' claims. Guthrie is more vigilant about warning us about the use of herbs, pointing out the risks and unknowns. She includes a helpful review of herbs that might influence diabetes management and wisely warns against substituting alternative care for your medical regimen. She also reminds you to discuss with your medical providers any complementary therapies you are using or considering using: "Combine both types of information and determine what you are going to do to make a better life for yourself and a healthier life for your body." --Joan Price
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