Diabetes: The New Type 2: Your Complete Handbook to Living Healthfully with Diabetes Type 2

Diabetes: The New Type 2: Your Complete Handbook to Living Healthfully with Diabetes Type 2

Diabetes: The New Type 2: Your Complete Handbook to Living Healthfully with Diabetes Type 2

Diabetes: The New Type 2: Your Complete Handbook to Living Healthfully with Diabetes Type 2

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Overview

An up-to-the minute, whole-life guide to living with and managing type 2 diabetes, the fastest-growing form of the disease in the United States and around the world.

With 1.5 million new cases diagnosed each year, diabetes is a certified American epidemic—7 percent of the U.S. population will be diagnosed with diabetes in their lives, with type 2 diabetes the fastest-growing form of the disease.

In Diabetes: The New Type 2, a registered nurse specializing in diabetic ailments and two diabetes educators (two of whom are diabetics themselves) deliver medical and lifestyle advice with good humor, high energy, and straight talk. This update of their classic Diabetes Type 2 and What to Do is filled with essential information on the latest developments in leading a healthy, happy life with type 2 diabetes. Learn about the basics of maintaining good physical and emotional health, the most current diabetes studies and information, as well as:

· Breakthroughs in medication, diet, and exercise to maintain healthy glucose levels
· Lowering your risk for heart attacks, strokes, and other diabetes-related health conditions
· Caring for children with type 2 diabetes
· Diabetes and Alzheimer’s, and much more

An invaluable resource, Diabetes: The New Type 2 is a high- energy, user-friendly approach to one of the most prevalent health issues of our time.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440631054
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 09/11/2008
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 1,041,747
File size: 831 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

June Biermann and Barbara Toohey are the founders of the SugarFree Centers, directors of Prana Publications, publishers of the newsletter The Diabetic Reader, and authors of eight other books on diabetes. They live in California.

Table of Contents


Foreword Anne L. Peters, M.D., CDE 1 How to Use This Book: Three for the Road to Understanding Type 2 Diabetes 3 Introduction: The Worst of Times, The Best of Times 5
1 Type 2 Diabetes: What Is This Thing Called Diabetes? 15 Definitions of Diabetes 20
"Thrifty" Genes 30 Who Gets Diabetes? 33 Hypertension and Diabetes 37
2 Ways and Means of Control: Doing What You Have to Do 45 Goals for Blood Sugar Levels 47 Glycohemoglobin Test 58 Urine and Blood Glucose Testing 59 Keeping Records 75 Medication: Pills and Insulin and Lizard Spit! 77 Buying Supplies 94
3 Exercise: Your Lifetime Savings Plan 105 Benefits of Exercise 107 Setting Goals 111 Stretching 117 Walking: Shoes and Socks 122 Strength Training 132
4 Food, Diet, Nutrition: The "Only More So" Disease 146 Swimming in the Conservative Mainstream: The Low-Fat, High-Carbohydrate, High-Fiber Diet 148 The "Fast Fast" 149 Low-Fat Lifestyle 153 Restaurant Dining 159 Binge Eating 162 Carbohydrates 165 Glycemic Index 167 Fiber 174 Snacking 177 Riding the Radical Rapids: The Low-Carbohydrate, High-Protein Diet 180
5 Emotional Aspects of Diabetes: My Enemy/My Friend 189 Denial 192 Motivation 197 Attitude 198 Family and Friends 203 Stress 206 Sex 213 Fear of Insulin Injection 219 Adjusting to Loss of Spontaneity 221
6 Paying the Bill for Diabetes: Dollars and Nonsense 225 Health Insurance 228 Generic Drugs 229 HMOs 232 Private Insurance 235 Pooled-Risk and COBRA Insurance 239 Medigap and Senior Plans 242
7 Diabetes in Children and Young People: Youth Must Be Served-Especially When They Develop Diabetes 244 Dietary Considerations for Children and Young People with Type 2Diabetes 249 Exercise for Children and Young People with Type 2 Diabetes 253 Television 255 Too Little Sleep 256 Diabetes in Children and Young People: A Summing Up 258
8 Taking the Risk Out of Risk Factors 260 Heart Attack and Cardiac Arrest 261 Strokes 264 Alzheimer's 266 Glaucoma 268 The ACCORD Study: What You Need to Know 275
9 Two Little Afterwords 279 At My Age, Why Should I Bother? 279 The Diabetes Gospel According to Virginia Valentine 283 Reference Section 285 A Few of Our Favorite Things 285 Surgical Weight-Loss Options 291 Recommended Reading 295 Diabetes Web Sites 296 Index 299
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