From the Book - Regular Print - Fourth edition.
Dealing with the onset of diabetes
How diabetes affects your body
Managing diabetes: the "thriving with diabetes" lifestyle plan
Special considerations for living with diabetes
From the Book - Regular Print
What You Don't Have to Read 2 --
Icons Used in This Book 4 --
Part I Dealing With the Onset of Diabetes 7 --
Chapter 1 Dealing with Diabetes 9 --
Chapter 2 It's the Glucose 17 --
Chapter 3 What Type of Diabetes Do You Have? 25 --
Part II How Diabetes Affects Your Body 43 --
Chapter 4 Battling Short-Term Complications 45 --
Chapter 5 Preventing Long-Term Complications 57 --
Chapter 6 Diabetes, Sexual Function, and Pregnancy 85 --
Part III Managing Diabetes: The "Thriving with Diabetes" Lifestyle Plan 101 --
Chapter 7 Glucose Monitoring and Other Tests 103 --
Chapter 8 Diabetes Diet Plan 123 --
Chapter 9 Keeping It Moving: Exercise Plan 145 --
Chapter 10 Medications: What You Should Know 157 --
Chapter 11 Diabetes Is Your Show 181 --
Chapter 12 Putting Your Knowledge to Work for You 189 --
Part IV Special Considerations for Living with Diabetes 195 --
Chapter 13 Your Child Has Diabetes 197 --
Chapter 14 Diabetes and the Elderly 207 --
Chapter 15 Occupational and Insurance Problems 213 --
Chapter 16 What's New in Diabetes Care 221 --
Chapter 17 What Doesn't Work When You're Treating Diabetes 231 --
Part V Part of Tens 239 --
Chapter 18 Ten Ways to Prevent or Reverse the Effects of Diabetes 241 --
Chapter 19 Ten Myths about Diabetes That You Can Forget 247 --
Chapter 20 Ten Ways to Get Others to Help You 253 --
Appendix A Mini-Cookbook 263 --
Appendix B Exchange Lists 317 --
Appendix C Dr. W.W. Web 329.