The Everything Health Guide to Diabetes
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

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. 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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Information

Publisher
Everything
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781598697858

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: What Is Diabetes?
  9. Chapter 2: Type 1 Diabetes
  10. Chapter 3: Type 2 Diabetes
  11. Chapter 4: Gestational Diabetes (GDM)
  12. Chapter 5: Diagnosis and Beyond
  13. Chapter 6: Tests, Tests, and More Tests
  14. Chapter 7: Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose
  15. Chapter 8: All about Insulin
  16. Chapter 9: Type 2 Medications
  17. Chapter 10: Food and Blood Glucose
  18. Chapter 11: Eating Right in Action
  19. Chapter 12: Don’t Forget to Exercise!
  20. Chapter 13: Tackling Weight Loss
  21. Chapter 14: In Case of Emergency
  22. Chapter 15: Complications—Head to Toe
  23. Chapter 16: The Diabetic Foot
  24. Chapter 17: Kids and Diabetes
  25. Chapter 18: Special Issues for Women
  26. Chapter 19: Special Issues for Men
  27. Chapter 20: Diabetes, Emotions, and Relationships
  28. Chapter 21: Living Life with Diabetes
  29. Chapter 22: Search for a Cure
  30. Appendix A: Additional Resources
  31. Appendix B: Preventive Care Guidelines