Want to know how to manage your diabetes? This friendly book offers you reassuring guidance in putting together a state-of-the-art treatment program, Discover all the advances in monitoring glucose, the latest medications, and how to develop a diet and exercise plan to stay healthy, Full of interesting anecdotes and helpful advice, this is your ultimate diabetes reference,
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Get the latest information - read about the newest recommendations from the Canadian Diabetes Association and the up-and-coming advances in medicines and monitors
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Handle low and high blood-glucose emergencies - learn how to identify the symptoms that require urgent attention and how to treat the problem
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Manage diabetes and pregnancy - know what to do during pregnancy to help ensure a healthy baby
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Get to know your health care team - find the health care providers you need, from your family physician to your diabetes nurse educator to your dietitian, and more
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Manage your diabetes through exercise and nutritional know-how - achieve and maintain good diabetes health with suggested exercises and healthy eating tips
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Control your blood glucose through medication - find out everything you need to know, from treatment tips to potential side-effects
'Finally there is a book that I can recommend to people with diabetes,'
-Dr, Anne Kenshole, Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Open the book and find:
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The symptoms and causes of your diabetes
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How to monitor and record your blood glucose levels
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Tips for taking and caring for insulin
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Guidance on getting the vitamins and minerals you need from your diet
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How to incorporate exercise into your diabetes treatment plan
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What you need to know about alternative medicines
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Ways to get the best possible health care
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Useful Web sites to help keep you informed
Ian Blumer, MD, is a diabetes specialist and the author of Understanding Prescription Drugs For Canadians For Dummies,
Alan L, Rubin, MD, has had a private practice specializing in diabetes for over 30 years and is the author of several For Dummies books,
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Ian Blumer, MD, is a diabetes specialist and the author of Understanding Prescription Drugs For Canadians For Dummies.
Alan L. Rubin, MD, has had a private practice specializing in diabetes for over 30 years and is the author of several For Dummies books.
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Introduction.
Part I: Dealing with the Diagnosis of Diabetes.
Chapter 1: Membership in a Club You Didn't Ask to Join.
Chapter 2: You and Your Blood Glucose.
Chapter 3: Discovering the Cause of Your Diabetes.
Chapter 4: Looking at the Different Types of Diabetes.
Part II: How Diabetes Can Affect Your Body.
Chapter 5: Handling Low and High Blood Glucose Emergencies.
Chapter 6: As Time Goes By: Handling Long-Term Complications.
Chapter 7: Diabetes, Sexual Function, and Pregnancy.
Part III: Rule Your Diabetes: Don't Let It Rule You.
Chapter 8: Meet Your Diabetes Team.
Chapter 9: Monitoring and Understanding Your Blood Glucose Levels.
Chapter 10: You Are What You Eat: Staying Healthy with Good Nutrition.
Chapter 11: Exercising Your Way to Good Health.
Chapter 12: Controlling Your Blood Glucose with Oral Medications.
Chapter 13: Using Insulin Effectively.
Chapter 14: Complementary and Alternative Therapies.
Part IV: Particular Patients and Special Circumstances.
Chapter 15: Your Child Has Diabetes.
Chapter 16: Diabetes and the Elderly.
Chapter 17: Diabetes in Aboriginal Peoples.
Chapter 18: Special Circumstances: Employment, Insurance, Safe Driving and Piloting, and Preparing for Disaster.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Stay Healthy and Avoid Complications.
Chapter 20: Ten Frequently Asked Questions.
Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Get the Best Possible Health Care.
Part VI: Appendixes.
Appendix A: The Food Group System.
Appendix B: Straight Goods on a Tangled Web: Diabetes Web Sites Worth Visiting.
Appendix C: Glossary.
Index.