Diabetes For Dummies - Softcover

The straight facts on treating diabetes and living a full life

Want to know how to manage diabetes? Leading diabetes expert Dr. Alan Rubin gives you reassuring, authoritative guidance on 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.

• Dealing with diabetes ? get helpful guidance on understanding the different types of diabetes and dealing with the emotional and psychological consequences of your diagnosis
• Diabetes and your body ? find out what you need to know about both the short- and long-term complications of diabetes
• Thrive, don't just survive ? discover the dietary changes you need to make to control your blood glucose and how to get the most out of your exercise routine and medications
• Manage diabetes ? recognize the way that diabetes develops at every stage of life (and how to manage it successfully)
• Stay on the cusp ? get the scoop on all the newest developments in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating diabetes (and the real deal on misinformation in diabetes treatment)

Open the book and find:

• The symptoms and causes of type 1 and type 2 diabetes
• The tools available to treat diabetes
• Info on diabetes in children and the elderly
• The 4-1-1 on glucose monitoring and other tests
• A type 2 diabetes diet plan
• What you need to know about medications
• Considerations for occupational and insurance problems
• Delicious diabetic-friendly recipes

Learn to:

• Reduce your type 2 diabetes risk
• Monitor and maintain your glucose
• Eat right and exercise to stay healthy
• Treat and prevent short-term and long-term complications