Diabetes Type 2 and What to Do

by Valentine, Virginia; Biermann, June; Toohey, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780737304930
• ISBN10: 0737304936
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

More than 2,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with diabetes every day. Medical resources on the disease abound, but none tackle the ins and outs of living well with diabetes with the wit, compassion, and expertise of the bestselling Diabetes Type 2 & What to Do, now in its third thoroughly revised and updated edition.

Author Biography

Virginia Valentine, R.N., M.S., C.D.E., a health care consultant and educator, is the founder of the Diabetes Network. June Biermann and Barbara Toohey are coauthors of The Diabetic Man and Psyching Out Diabetes.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Introduction The Best Kind of Diabetes You Can Have	xiii
Introduction I Don't Have a Character Flaw---and Neither Do You!	xvii
Type 2 Diabetes: The What, Who, and Why of It	1	(22)
Ways and Means of Control: Doing What You Have to Do	23	(54)
Exercise: Your Lifetime Savings Plan	77	(30)
Food, Diet, Nutrition: The ``Only More So'' Disease	107	(42)
Emotional Aspects of Diabetes: My Enemy/My Friend	149	(36)
Paying the Bill for Diabetes: Dollars and Nonsense	185	(56)
Three Little Afterwords At My Age, Why Should I Bother?	203	(4)
The Diabetes Gospel According to Virginia Valentine	207	(4)
The Eyes Have It: A Cautionary Tale of an Acute Glaucoma Incident	211	(8)
Recommended Reading	219	(22)
Index	241