Managing Diabetes Your Way Workbook Living with Type 2 Diabetes

by Roybal, Beth Ann Petro; Funnell, Martha M.

• ISBN13: 9781569754351
• ISBN10: 1569754357
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-28
• Publisher: Ulysses Press

Summary

It is estimated that over two and a quarter million Canadians have diabetes, with 90 percent of those cases being type 2. Doctors generally provide these patients with a basic understanding of the disease, but this is the first book to provide a personalized, at-home program to monitor, track and gain control of type 2 diabetes. It includes fill-in-the-blank worksheets, charts and daily logs.With simple-to-use blood glucose monitors now widely available at drugstores, checking one's blood sugar at home has never been easier. The author offers a straightforward way to relate these readings to their causes, leading readers to learn how to manage their disease.

Author Biography

Beth Ann Petro Roybal, M.A., is an award-winning writer, editor, and instructional designer of health and safety publications, videos, computer-based instruction, and teaching outlines. Her more than 100 publications have been used by well over a million people. She has developed educational materials for physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, as well as for companies that provide health services and products. What she finds most fulfilling, however, is presenting technical medical information in a way that is understandable and meaningful to lay readers, enabling them to be better prepared to take charge of their health. When not busy developing educational materials, she and her family spend their free time hiking the coastal Central California hills and tending an orchard and garden at their hillside home overlooking California's Pajaro Valley.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Introduction: Diabetes---The End of the World... or the Beginning of Renewed Health?	1	(4)
A Brief Explanation of Diabetes	5	(10)
Team Participation	15	(8)
Glucose: What Are All Those Numbers?	23	(17)
Diabetes Meds	40	(10)
Diabetes and Weight	50	(10)
Developing a Food Plan That Works	60	(21)
Get Moving	81	(11)
Your State of Mind	92	(13)
Diabetes and Your Heart	105	(13)
Working with Your Health Team to Minimize Complications	118	(22)
When Diabetes Meets Your World	140	(14)
Resources for Implementing Your Diabetes Plan	154	(8)
References	162	(1)
Appendix of Worksheets	163	(17)
About the Author	180