Diabetes Books

Easy index, easy read. Allows you to quickly reference caloric/fat/carb content while in line at the drive through. This simple tool has allowed me to make intelligent, satisfying choices while maintaining my weight loss in the "real world."
A must have for the health concious.

This book is exactly what it says-facts on many fast food places. It gives the nutritional content and diabetic exchanges on every item on the menu. I have ordered this book in bulk to use in diet groups that I lead. Some of the participants said it has changed the way they view fast food, and actually changed their eating choices. I recommend this book to every American who likes fast food-you should know what you are eating.

Prof. Kinga Howorka, MD studied under Dr. Viktor Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning) and was his doctor in his twilight year. This book liberated our young son Tyler Hill's life. His most recent medical report stated 'extremely excellent' diabetes control. What mattered to us most, is that Tyler could live an extremely excellent life without limitations.

The book introduces and explains the "FIT" therapy developed by the author, Prof. Kinga Howorka, for allowing insulin dependent patients of type 1 and type 2 to conduct an almost normal life with no prescheduled, firm intake of meals and blood sugar related diet.

This is a proven, yet very unknown therapy which empowers persons with diabetes to react on the measurements of blood glucose by correcting them and to adjust the insulin dosis they need for basal (fasting, long-acting insulin), prandial (eating, short acting insulin) and correcting needs (short acting insulin).

Being a person with diabetes myself and having experienced and witnessed the incredible increase in the quality of life with FIT as described in this book, I would urge anyone with insulin dependent diabetes to study this book. The book is suitable for patients and professionals alike.

This is a simple, yet excellent book for someone who wants to improve their health with healthy eating and needs to learn a little about nutrition. The big surprise for me was that the recipes appear to be quite good. Usually when a book covering nutrition includes recipes, they are average at best. Although I have not made any of the recipes in the book yet, I have been cooking long enough to know that there are some very good ones included. I was very impressed that the authors took the time to include recipes that actually will taste good, and are simple to prepare as well as being nutritional. I can guarantee from my own experience that anyone who switches from the regular American diet of sugar-laden and fried foods to a healthy diet like this, will see a significant improvement in their health. This is the diet my children and I had while they were growing up. They were almost never sick while at home, except for a rare cold (less than once every three years.) Once they were on their own, the ones who continued this diet remained healthy and the ones who started eating the regular fatty, sugary diet of most people had their health decline. Now they are all back on the healthy eating and their health reflects it. And the food - it tastes great. Once you start eliminating fatty fried foods and sugar, you will wonder how you ever ate it in the first place.

Five HEALTHFUL Stars!! In this great compendium Jerry Baker's expert nutrition team, Karen Cicero and Colleen Pierre, shows that many foods can not only taste good and be the source of healthful nutrients, but have healing powers that many of us may not be aware of and can apply in specific cases of need. In an age when we hear so many individual news stories on the benefits of a particular food, it's hard to remember them over time. Now we have one place to look for many common foods available to us all that pack a nutritional punch and HEAL. Not exhaustive to be sure, but a great reference book nonetheless that outlines common foods that it claims can fight cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, osteoperosis, memory loss, etc. And the benefit cited in most of the listed foods is the #1 killer in the US: heart disease.

This book is practically a summary of the healing powers and cures of a wide variety of specifically targeted foods. In addition, there is a "Shop and Serve Solutions" area for each food with tips on selecting, storing, and preparing them. And there are 111 easy-to-prepare healthful healing recipes. It also has great tables comparing the benefits of the varioius types of berries, another table on the benefits of various types of beans, and yet another on the various types of oils.

I know that a well-known health newsletter held a "Healthiest Vegetable" contest and their tests revealed the "Sweet Potato" (no skin) is the king of veggies, so I checked for it first and it's here, along with a great 'sweet potato fries' recipe. Incidentially, "Raw Carrots" and "Cooked Carrots" (yes, listed separately) come in second & third respectively among veggies and they are likewise listed with a really simple "Sugar Baby Carrots" recipe. The rest of the health magazine top five are: "Spinach", and "Collard Greens" (a great fighter against cataracts and macular degeneration). And they are all listed in this book with extensive data on their benefits. So this book is on target in the comparison with the health newsletter's extensive research results.

Laid out in alphabetical order, literally from A to Y, with a 'bullet list' of what each food "Battles", what it "Bolsters", and a table of it's nutritional value (calories, fat, saturated fat, sodium, cholesterol, etc..). Naturally, the first food is "Apples", which "Battles" cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, and stroke. Apples "Bolsters" (bowel) regularity. And so on, all the way through 117 foods to "Yogurt" on p 485. On p. 490, there is a "Super-charged Menus" list of breakfasts, lunches and dinners for 7 days using recipes contained in the book. Very practical! it's a very readable book that may have you looking at some rather common foods differently and stocking up on them because of their benefits. It did so for me! This book could vastly improve your health or unknowingly save your life!! Five HUGE NUTRITIONAL Stars!!
(Hardcover, 510 Illustrated pages with large type fonts.)

I learned about a lot of different options for treating and reversing diabetes. This book is full of information!

This book gave you information that is easy to understand and simple to try the steps it suggest. I gave it to my 80 year old Mother whom recently has become diabetic. Her and I tryed alot of what it said to do and we both feel terrific.

Turkestan Reunion is a compendium of letters written by Eleanor Holgate Lattimore to her family while traveling on her over one year honeymoon trip in Siberia, Turkestan and the Karakorum. These letters are arranged according to their date having been written at approximately fifteen day intervals. Each letter is forewarded by a brief resume of the happenings and is heralded by a nice drawing, which I believe is by the Author. It could be called an epistolary travel book and this is not common among travel literature. This very characteristic lends the book its grace and appeal, that emerge strikingly after all these years (it was assembled in 1934 from the journey which took place in 1927-28).
Why a companion book? Eleanor Lattimore was Owen Lattimore's wife and her husband is famous among students of politics and of the Eastern civilizations for his many contributions to the knowledge of those little known countries in those times. Owen wrote his own books on their original wedding trip, the Desert Road to Turkestan and High Tartary, that are famous in their own right, and probably Eleanor's book is often picked up because its mentioned in these other works.
However even if it describes events that are already known, Eleanor's outlook on these same occasions is completely different and orginal. A woman's sensibility? Probably, a woman that possesed courage, curiosity, wasn't afraid of disconforts and was able to relate herself with empathy towards her travel companions and the people she met.
The endurance of the great disconfort of the couple's trip assumes in the Author's prose almost a sense of liberation from the material preoccupations of the civilized world to go back to the essentials of living: protection from cold and heat, food, rest, traveling necessities such as carts and horses, good company.
The first part of the book contains the description of the seventeen day travel through Siberia, that Eleanor accomplished alone, while the rest narrates the common path through Chinese Turkestan and the five Karakorum Passes. Much attentions is dedicated to the nomads encountered during the journey, the Qazaks the Qirghiz and others.
The book can truely be defined ethnographic because it is first hand description of a traveling experience accomplished with curiosity and the desire to learn. "One can understand a little of how difficult a province is to rule when one relizes that it still contains flotsam and jetsam remnants of every variety of people who have passed through or conquered the land as well as the scamps and villains who have run away from Chinese law", is an example of the deeply empathic outlook on her experiences.
Another aspect I particularly love in travel books is the "spirit of place", the ability to make the reader feel inside a different reality. Eleanor Lattimore's Turkestan Reunion truely evokes this feeling, more than Owen Lattimore's High Tartary which is more scholarly and detailed.
As David Lattimore, the couple's son, affirms in the Biographical Note at the end of the book Eleanor and Owen's journey and love story deserve to be remembered because of their uniqueness and the sense of adventure and youth they are still capable of conveying.

Turkestan Reunion is a collection of the letters written by Eleanor Lattimore to her family in the United States documenting her honeymoon travels from Beijing, through Siberia, into East Turkestan, and over the Karakorum mountains into British Kashmir.

The route Lattimore takes is epic and ranging, crossing everything from arid deserts, Siberian tundra, and towering mountains. Such a journey would make fascinating reading regardless, yet an even greater part of the intrigue and charm of this book comes from its authorship by a woman in time when even hardy, professional male adventurers sometimes couldn't endure similar conditions. Ms. Lattimore is truly a trailblazer, in the literal sense of trekking across routes tread by the feet of very few, but also in the sense that her adventures in the early part of the 20th century very clearly run contrary to what where then very strong and revered concepts of female domesticity. In 1927, the idea of a traveling, white woman was so foreign and novel that many officials and friends who hosted the Lattimores, European or otherwise, were sometimes at a loss in deciding what kind of arrangements should be made for Eleanor. Not only does Lattimore shatter "womanly domesticity" just by traveling, she also consciously chooses to travel in the most down-to-earth way, reaching for the most authentic experiences. Often she chooses horseback over carriage (when physically possible; the weather in Turkestan often did no permit), she voices preference for the rundown accommodations and authentic food of the locals rather than the plusher European lodging and food that sometimes was available.

Beyond the gender angle, Turkestan Reunion additionally presents a sort of ethnographic experience much less condescending to locals than many travel writings and exploration writings of the time. Lattimore's writing inevitably retains an element of colonial privilege, for example, in the repeated tendency to bestow comical Western names on their guides rather than learning their real names. However, relative to other writers of the time, and to other Westerners in general of the 1920s, the Lattimores display a unique willingness and even desire to commune with locals and acknowledge the hardships of their existence. Eleanor Lattimore with a keen eye documents everyday proceedings of everyday villagers; games among herdsmen, a witch-curing ceremony, marriage and divorce, the arbitration of disputes, these and others are documented in Lattimores casual yet elegant prose. As white travelers in a China still mired in a pseudo-colonized position relative to the rest, there still are many instances where the Lattimores are regaled by obsequious officials and conniving businessmen with banquets and galas, but while these celebrations often compose the bulk of 19th and early 20th century travel writing, Lattimore's book is balanced by the ground-up perspective she is willing to describe. As such, there is a pre-ethnographic element to Lattimore's writing that anticipates the academic enlightenment which led to the understanding that the lives of locals are worth documenting and should be observed from more than just a colonial-overlord perspective.

What drew me to this book was the simple premise of it all; even in our intrepid modern times, young and energetic newly weds are more likely to choose Cabo San Lucas or Paris to celebrate their honeymoon, yet Owen and Eleanor Lattimore chose the foreboding deserts and towering, ice-capped peaks of East Turkestan to celebrate their marriage, and at a time when traveling through such extreme environments was not as easy as buying a bus ticket or boarding an airplane. However, Eleanor Lattimore's simple and descriptive writing style exceeds the novelty of this underlying premise, anticipating a sort of feminist traveling philosophy and capturing an ethnographic ethic to observe, and therefore understand the peoples of the places they visited.

Interesting story of an obese/diabetic woman and how she took control...to get her health back.

thanks so much for this funny book. it arrived safely and in the time allotted!

Leslie Dawson's book on tips to save up to $3,000 a year on your diabetes costs delivers on the promise. However, only one thing is not clear from reading the cover: this book is mostly focused on tips for very low-income and homeless persons who suffer diabetes. Though a handful of the tips you will find may be useful to middle class readers, the majority of the chapters offer advice about programs and oppportunities that someone with a middle class income and above would not qualify for. Besides this, it is an excellent book that every library should carry for the benefit of the people that really need this type of tips the most: the ones who suffer such an expensive condition with very limited financial resources to face it.

Written by freelance medical writer Leslie Y. Dawson (who has lived with diabetes for 25 years) and published by the American Diabetes Association, How To Save Up To $3000 A Year On Your Diabetes Costs is an extremely practical and authoritative guide to conserving money while maintaining the diabetes health care of the highest quality for oneself or a loved one. Individual chapters deftly address how to buy medications through the mail or the Internet; sources of free or low-cost health care; ways to reduce food costs while increasing nutrition value; how to get specialized prescription discount cards from drug companies; and so much more. An extremely practical, readable, and user-friendly guide that literally pays for itself, How To Save Up To $3000 A Year On Your Diabetes Costs should be a mandatory addition to all community library Diabetes reference collections -- and urgently recommended reading for anyone having to deal with the high and rising costs of modern medicine with respect to dealing with diabetes. Plainly states -- if you have diabetes, or are responsible for someone who does, then you need to get hold of a copy and carefully read this book from cover to cover!

One of the most difficult life-style changes that the newly diagnosed diabetic must deal with is that of proper, regular exercise. Exercise, along with an appropriate diet, blood sugar level monitoring, and medications, is an essential part of diabetes self-care. Exercise also helps the diabetic cope with this life-time disability both emotionally and physically. Now the American Diabetes Association has published a newly expanded and updated second edition of "The 'I Hate To Exercise' Book" by Charlotte Hayes, a nutrition and fitness consultant who has specialized in diabetes management and education for the last seventeen years. Readers will discover how to ease their way into more daily physical activity; build an active lifestyle based on their own daily routines; create fun low-impact walking programs; set realistic exercise goals, chart them, and so much more. Just beginning with five minutes a day, even the most sedentary diabetic will be able to lift their mood, lighten their weight, burn calories while building muscle, reduce stress levels, acquire more energy, look and feel great, and acquire the motivation to pursue their diabetic self-care practices with a growing satisfaction. "The 'Hate To Exercise" Book" should be considered 'must' reading for anyone diagnosed with diabetes who finds the thought of daily exercise intimidating or unappealing.

This book has many great parts it is hard to name them all. The best part is the section that shows how you can exercise in a chair. This is great to do to the TV, and if you have problems with your feet. It has some weight resistance as well as stretching exercise.

Another great feature are the hints to get more exercise doing the things you normally do throughout the day. Highly recommend.

This book is great for teens. It was easy to read & caught the interest of my teen. She actually read it. They even throw in some good humor!

This book should be read by all teens with diabetes. I picked up this book in the Endo's office and thought it was going be a dumb boring book but once I started reading it I couldnt stop. From Topics from Food to Driving and others , This Book has things Teens With Diabetes Will need

Can we review this book and then either purchase or return the book? I will write the review within 3 days of getting the book. Please send us a review copy as soon as possible.

Thank you,

Ralph La Forge, M.Sc. Duke University Lipid Clinic 8 North Poston Court Durham, NC 27705 (919) 490-3794 ralphlaforge@msn.com

It was in 1986 at the end of his Banting Memorial lecture that Reaven said: "At first blush it appears outlandish to suggest an association between hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia and hyperinsulinemia.." His words have rung in my ears ever since! Yes hyperinsulinemia is now widely understood to be the measurable outcome of insulin resistance, now known by the international acronym "IR". Insulin resistance is the "hidden resistance" that leads to an incredible diversity of clinical disorders which "at first blush" appear even more unlikely; these disorders in fact range from diabetes to polycystic ovary disease; and from hypertension to unwanted facial hair in women to name just four conditions! It is highly appropriate that Reaven has now given the world the benefit of his understanding of this ubiquitous Metabolic Syndrome. This syndrome has baffled science for decades and has lead to an incredidible explosion of research papers on this theme; it is almost impossible to even read and understand all the abstracts for "insulin resistance" on Medline let alone read the published papers! Reaven's book is a welcome addition to our resources.