Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I Understanding Diabetes -- CHAPTER 1 The Diagnosis of Diabetes: Making It and Hearing It -- CHAPTER 2 Types of Diabetes -- PART II Controlling Diabetes -- CHAPTER 3 Goals of Treatment and How to Reach Them -- CHAPTER 4 Blood Glucose Monitoring -- CHAPTER 5 Hypoglycemia -- CHAPTER 6 Introduction to Nutrition Therapy: Planning and Understanding the Diet -- CHAPTER 7 Dietary Health for Type II Diabetes -- CHAPTER 8 Dietary Health for Type I Diabetes -- CHAPTER 10 Exercise and Diabetes -- CHAPTER 11 Treating Type II Diabetes with Oral Hypoglycemics -- CHAPTER 12 Treating Diabetes with Insulin -- CHAPTER 13 Types of Insulin -- CHAPTER 14 External Insulin Pumps -- PART III Living with Diabetes -- CHAPTER 15 The Emotional Side of Diabetes -- CHAPTER 16 Families Who Live with Diabetes -- CHAPTER 17 Balancing Your Social Life, Your Work Life, and Diabetes -- CHAPTER 18 Dealing with Psychological Problems -- CHAPTER 19 Interacting with Health Care Professionals -- CHAPTER 20 Interacting with the Health Care System -- CHAPTER 21 Employment and Diabetes -- PART IV Complications -- CHAPTER 22 Systemic Symptoms -- CHAPTER 23 Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolar Coma -- CHAPTER 24 Hardening of the Arteries -- CHAPTER 25 Diabetic Eye Disease -- CHAPTER 26 Diabetic Kidney Disease -- CHAPTER 27 Diabetic Neuropathy -- CHAPTER 28 Diabetes and the Foot -- CHAPTER 29 Diabetes and the Skin -- Part V Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Genetics -- CHAPTER 30 Diabetes and Sexuality -- CHAPTER 31 Diabetes and Pregnancy -- CHAPTER 32 The Genetics of Diabetes -- Part VI The Future of Care -- CHAPTER 33 Diabetes Research -- CHAPTER 34 The Prognosis -- APPENDIX -- Index.