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The straight facts on treating diabetes successfully and living a full and active life
Want to know how to manage your diabetes? This friendly book offers you reassuring guidance in putting together a state-of-the-art treatment program. Discover all the advances in monitoring glucose, the latest medications, and how to develop a diet and exercise plan to stay healthy. Full of interesting anecdotes and helpful advice, this is your ultimate diabetes reference.
• Get the latest information-read about the newest recommendations from the Canadian Diabetes Association and the up-and-coming advances in medicines and monitors
• Handle low and high blood-glucose emergencies-learn how to identify the symptoms that require urgent attention and how to treat the problem
• Manage diabetes and pregnancy-know what to do during pregnancy to help ensure a healthy baby
• Get to know your health care team-find the health care providers you need, from your family physician to your diabetes nurse educator to your dietitian, and more
• Manage your diabetes through exercise and nutritional know-how-achieve and maintain good diabetes health with suggested exercises and healthy eating tips
• Control your blood glucose through medication-find out everything you need to know, from treatment tips to potential side-effects
Open the book and find:
• The symptoms and causes of your diabetes
• How to monitor and record your blood glucose levels
• Tips for taking and caring for insulin
• Guidance on getting the vitamins and minerals you need from your diet
• How to incorporate exercise into your diabetes treatment plan
• What you need to know about alternative medicines
• Ways to get the best possible health care
• Useful Web sites to help keep you informed
Want to know how to manage your diabetes? This friendly book offers you reassuring guidance in putting together a state-of-the-art treatment program. Discover all the advances in monitoring glucose, the latest medications, and how to develop a diet and exercise plan to stay healthy. Full of interesting anecdotes and helpful advice, this is your ultimate diabetes reference.
• Get the latest information-read about the newest recommendations from the Canadian Diabetes Association and the up-and-coming advances in medicines and monitors
• Handle low and high blood-glucose emergencies-learn how to identify the symptoms that require urgent attention and how to treat the problem
• Manage diabetes and pregnancy-know what to do during pregnancy to help ensure a healthy baby
• Get to know your health care team-find the health care providers you need, from your family physician to your diabetes nurse educator to your dietitian, and more
• Manage your diabetes through exercise and nutritional know-how-achieve and maintain good diabetes health with suggested exercises and healthy eating tips
• Control your blood glucose through medication-find out everything you need to know, from treatment tips to potential side-effects
Open the book and find:
• The symptoms and causes of your diabetes
• How to monitor and record your blood glucose levels
• Tips for taking and caring for insulin
• Guidance on getting the vitamins and minerals you need from your diet
• How to incorporate exercise into your diabetes treatment plan
• What you need to know about alternative medicines
• Ways to get the best possible health care
• Useful Web sites to help keep you informed
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