
eBook - ePub
The Everything Health Guide to Diabetes
The latest treatment, medication, and lifestyle options to help you live a happy, healthy, and active life
- 336 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
The Everything Health Guide to Diabetes
The latest treatment, medication, and lifestyle options to help you live a happy, healthy, and active life
About this book
Diabetes may be a daunting disease, but it can be manageable. Completely updated and revised in the new health guide format, this book offers people who have been diagnosed with the disease information to help them live with diabetes. This professional handbook teaches readers to recognize signs and symptoms, monitor blood glucose levels, understand insulin types and quantities, select the right medication, and more. Written by an experienced health writer who runs a diabetes Web site, this sourcebook offers diabetes sufferers the information they need to live happy, healthy lives. This edition includes completely new material on the latest testing methods, risk factors and special considerations, and gestational and childhood diabetes.
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Yes, you can access The Everything Health Guide to Diabetes by Paula Ford-Martin,Ian Blummer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Diseases & Allergies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: What Is Diabetes?
- Chapter 2: Type 1 Diabetes
- Chapter 3: Type 2 Diabetes
- Chapter 4: Gestational Diabetes (GDM)
- Chapter 5: Diagnosis and Beyond
- Chapter 6: Tests, Tests, and More Tests
- Chapter 7: Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose
- Chapter 8: All about Insulin
- Chapter 9: Type 2 Medications
- Chapter 10: Food and Blood Glucose
- Chapter 11: Eating Right in Action
- Chapter 12: Donāt Forget to Exercise!
- Chapter 13: Tackling Weight Loss
- Chapter 14: In Case of Emergency
- Chapter 15: ComplicationsāHead to Toe
- Chapter 16: The Diabetic Foot
- Chapter 17: Kids and Diabetes
- Chapter 18: Special Issues for Women
- Chapter 19: Special Issues for Men
- Chapter 20: Diabetes, Emotions, and Relationships
- Chapter 21: Living Life with Diabetes
- Chapter 22: Search for a Cure
- Appendix A: Additional Resources
- Appendix B: Preventive Care Guidelines