Diabetes for dummies /
Alan L. Rubin.
- Tercera edición
- Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2008
- 386 p. : il.
- For dummies .
Includes index.
Introduction -- Pt. 1. Dealing with the onset of diabetes. Dealing with diabetes ; It's the glucose ; What type of diabetes do you have? -- Pt. 2. How diabetes affects your body. Battling short-term complications ; Preventing long-term complications ; Diabetes, sexual function, and pregnancy -- Pt. 3. Managing diabetes: the "Thriving with Diabetes" lifestyle plan. Glucose monitoring and other tests ; Diabetes diet plan ; Keeping it moving: exercise plan ; Medications: what you should know ; Diabetes is your show ; Putting your knowledge to work for you -- Pt. 4. Special considerations for living with diabetes. Your child has diabetes ; Diabetes and the elderly ; Occupational and insurance problems ; What's new in diabetes care ; What doesn't work when you trick diabetes -- Pt. 5. The part of tens. Ten ways to prevent or reverse the effects of diabetes ; Ten myths about diabetes that you can forget ; Ten ways to get others to help you -- Pt. 6. Appendixes. Mini-cookbook ; Dr. W. W. Web ; Glossary.