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Your essential guide to managing diabetes successfully and living a full life Don't just survive — thrive! Diabetes For Dummies, 3rd Australian edition, brings you right up to date with the latest research, treatment and management approaches for all types of diabetes. This book is essential reading whether you have diabetes yourself or are supporting a friend or relative with the condition. Reduce your diabetes risk — understand and avoid the causes of prediabetes and diabetes Recognise the importance of diet and exercise — adopt a healthy eating plan and exercise regime that works for you Keep on top of self-monitoring and medication — learn what's new in research and treatment in Australia, and what advances are on the horizon Deal with the emotional challenges of having diabetes — understand how your mental health affects your physical health and develop coping styles that work over the long term Prevent short-term and long-term complications — know how to deal with low or very high blood glucose and find out how diabetes can affect your kidneys, nervous system, heart and eyes Manage diabetes in children and older people — care for your child from infancy to self-management and help support the older person with diabetes Get the support you need — know which organisations to turn to for help and access reputable online support Open the book and find: How to identify the differences between type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes Explanations for the drugs used in diabetes management Tips for caring for your feet Advice on coping with diabetes before and during pregnancy Practical exercises for improving your mental health How to deal with on-the-job and insurance obstacles Ways to identify dodgy treatments and 'cures' Learn to: Manage your diabetes and live life to the full Eat a balanced diet and exercise for a healthier life Deal with the psychological effects of your condition Access the best online support

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 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 Chapter 4: Taking Preventive Measures 41 Chapter 5: Dealing with Prediabetes 51 Part II: How Diabetes Affects Your Body 59 Chapter 6: Managing the Lumps and Bumps of Day-to-Day Diabetes 61 Chapter 7: Preventing Long-Term Complications 79 Chapter 8: Fabulous Feet 111 Part III: Living with Diabetes: Your Physical Health 121 Chapter 9: Glucose Monitoring and Other Tests 123 Chapter 10: Medications: What You Should Know 137 Chapter 11: Healthy Eating in Diabetes 161 Chapter 12: Keeping It Moving: Exercise Plan 191 Part IV: Living with Diabetes: Your Mental Health 203 Chapter 13: Mind Matters: Mental Health in Diabetes 205 Chapter 14: Diabetes Is Your Show 223 Chapter 15: Putting Your Knowledge to Work for You 231 Part V: Special Considerations for Living with Diabetes 239 Chapter 16: Your Child Has Diabetes 241 Chapter 17: Diabetes and the Older Person 253 Chapter 18: Diabetes and Pregnancy 261 Chapter 19: Occupational and Insurance Problems 275 Chapter 20: Advances in Diabetes Care 283 Chapter 21: What Doesn’t Work When You’re Treating Diabetes 289 Part VI: The Part of Tens 297 Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Prevent or Reverse the Effects of Diabetes 299 Chapter 23: Ten Myths about Diabetes That You Can Forget 307 Chapter 24: Ten Types of Websites to Learn More about Diabetes 315 Part VII: Appendixes 323 Appendix A: Insulin Pumps 325 Appendix B: Mental Health Exercises 331 Glossary 337 Index 343

About the Author :
Professor Lesley Campbell is the Director of the Diabetes Centre at St Vincent's Hospital, a leading centre involved in both the research and management of the disease. Alan L Rubin MD has run a private practice specialising in diabetes for 25 years.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780730375029
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: For Dummies
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0730375021
  • Publisher Date: 18 May 2011
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 376


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