Diabetes For Dummies

by Lesley Campbell, Alan L. Rubin

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780730375029
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/18/2011
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	376
File size:	5 MB

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.

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