"A Fireside book."
Includes index.
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1: Understanding diabetes
Deciphering diabetes: what type of diabetes do you have?
Goals and tools for treatment
2: Treating diabetes with nutrition therapy and physical activity
Nutrition and meal planning basics
More about carbohydrate
Heart-healthy eating
Dining out
Losing weight
gaining control
Physical activity and fitness basics
Exercising safely with Type 1 diabetes
Successfully making lifestyle changes
3: Monitoring and treating diabetes with medications
Glucose monitoring
Diabetes pills
Insulin basics
Physiologic insulin treatment
Insulin pumps
4: Adjusting your treatment program
Adjusting for low blood glucose (hypoglycemia)
Adjusting for high blood glucose (hyperglycemia)
Managing diabetes when you are ill
Long-term complications of diabetes
Poor care
5: Special challenges of diabetes
Diabetes in children and adolescents
Diabetes and pregnancy
Sexual issues
6: Living well with diabetes
Living well with diabetes as an older adult
Coping with diabetes
Traveling with diabetes
Good diabetes care: what is it?...How to get it.
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The Joslin guide to diabetes : a program for managing your treatment by Richard S. Beaser. ISBN 9780743257848. Published by Simon & Schuster in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
