Editorial Review:Product Description:Covers the latest glucose meters and insulin treatments The straight facts on treating diabetes successfully and living a full life
Want to know how to manage diabetes? Leading diabetes expert Dr. Alan Rubin gives you reassuring, authoritative guidance in putting together a state-of-the-art treatment program. You'll learn about all the advances in monitoring glucose, the latest medications, and how to develop a diet and exercise plan to stay healthy. You'll also see how to overcome insurance and on-the-job obstacles.
Discover how to:
- Reduce your diabetes risk
- Understand the different types of diabetes
- Manage diabetes in children and the elderly
- Prevent long-term complications
- Get the support you need
Amazon.com Review:'The Greeks and Romans knew about diabetes. Fortunately, the way they tested for the condition--by tasting the urine--has gone by the wayside.'
Diabetes for Dummies has the friendly, quirky style you expect from all the For Dummies books, but this is no skim-the-surface Diabetes 101. Rubin has packed this book with useful information, peppered with warm advice for enjoying your life while living with diabetes. One of his points is that although you'd rather not have this disease, you're lucky to have it now instead of a few decades ago, because today you can manage diabetes and live a productive, quality-filled life.
The book is divided into sections on 'Dealing with the Onset of Diabetes,' 'How Diabetes Affects Your Body,' 'Managing Diabetes: The 'Thriving with Diabetes' Lifestyle Plan,' and 'Special Considerations for Living with Diabetes.' Each chapter is packed with facts and strategies on topics such as monitoring, battling complications, medications, diet, and exercise. If you skim, it's an introduction to diabetes; if you read it carefully, it's a textbook. Web surfers will appreciate the 'Dr. W.W. Web' appendix, where Rubin lists many useful diabetes Web sites. (If you'd rather click than type, you can visit Rubin's Web site, where he offers links to all the diabetes sites.) Also included is a mini-cookbook of multiethnic recipes from noted restaurants, mostly in San Francisco (with the restaurant address, in case you want to order instead of cook).
--Joan Price
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Diabetes for Dummies
The book is a good way to keep up with changes in treatment of type one and type two diabetes. Those of us who have diabetes need to have a reference book that is updated with the latest treatment tools and diagnostic explanations. This book does that in a language easy to understand.
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An Update
This book is worth getting whether you are newly diagnosed or at a point where you really do want to manage your condition. It updates information from the original and offers newer resources. It is worth having as an initial learning tool and as an ongoing resource.
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A MUST HAVE FOR NEWBIES
This is a must have for anyone that has or is taking care of someone with type I or II diabetes. EASY TO UNDERSTAND!
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Very Helpful
This book has a lot of good information and written so it can be understood.
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Excellent!
If you are new to diabetes, this book has all the information that you are looking for, in easy to understand explanations. A must have if you are diabetic or live with someone who is.
