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Diabetes A Guide to Living Well The most comprehensive guide to living with diabetes is now completely revised and updated. "Helpful, current, and up-to-date with good information." —The Diabetes Educator This extensively revised edition of Diabetes: A Guide to Living Well incorporates the latest diabetes research, emphasizing the current focus on preventive measures supported by the results of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial. It will help you design a program of individualized self-care that fits your lifestyle and avoid the major complications of diabetes. This no-nonsense guide explains how to overcome resistance and negative beliefs—and offers concrete strategies for dealing with stress, emotional reactions, and difficult-to-change eating and activity habits. Diabetes: A Guide to Living Well includes updated nutrition advice that reflects the research and guidelines from the American Diabetes Association, information on new medications, and expanded discussion on insulin pump therapy. For the first time, the book also includes information specifically for people with Type 2 diabetes. "A useful and valuable addition to the library of anyone dealing with diabetes." —Journal of Nutrition Education
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"There are three kinds of people with diabetes: those who cooperate completely in maintaining a normal blood glucose range; those who do this part time; and those who never do it." This updated third edition of Diabetes: A Guide to Living Well was written for all three groups. The authors have diabetes themselves: "We temper medical experts' views with first-hand knowledge of the challenges, threats, and gifts of diabetes."
They cover not only blood glucose control, but also integrating diabetes management with all the other aspects of your life: emotional well-being, dealing with crisis, managing stress, maintaining an active lifestyle, following a balanced and moderate meal plan, and working to increase your adherence to your self-care program. For all this to work, you have to pick a regimen that fits you personally, and that you will willingly follow, so you get your choice of an "intensive," "moderate," or "loose" regimen. Frequent questionnaires, logs, assessment tests, personal notes from the authors, and action steps help you personalize the information. "Living well depends less on how we care for our diabetes than on how we care for ourselves," write the authors, and they help you do both. --Joan Price
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