The Everything Health Guide to Diabetes : The latest treatment, medication, and lifestyle options to help you live a happy, healthy, and active life.
Title:
The Everything Health Guide to Diabetes : The latest treatment, medication, and lifestyle options to help you live a happy, healthy, and active life.
Author:
Ford Martin, Paula.
ISBN:
9781440521973
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (322 pages)
Series:
Everything®
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- 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: Don't Forget to Exercise! -- Chapter 13: Tackling Weight Loss -- Chapter 14: In Case of Emergency -- Chapter 15: Complications-Head 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 -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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