The art of avoiding diabetes and its complications has been known to humankind for over 2500 years. Yet, people have not learned to live with it. Is it impossible for a person with diabetes to live healthy for his entire lifespan? Embark on an extraordinary journey with Dr. Kamal Kant Lal as he shares a deeply personal odyssey in How I Fell in Love with My Diabetes. This memoir isn't just about managing diabetes, it's an inspiring testament to resilience, self-discovery, and a radical shift in perspective towards living with this condition. Initially grappling with unhealthy habits, his health decline marked a pivotal turning point. Driven by an unyielding determination to thrive, Dr. Lal transformed his life.
The instant New York Times bestseller. A groundbreaking method to master all types of diabetes by reversing insulin resistance. Current medical wisdom advises that anyone suffering from diabetes or prediabetes should eat a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet. But in this revolutionary book, Cyrus Khambatta, PhD, and Robby Barbaro, MPH, rely on a century of research to show that advice is misguided. While it may improve short-term blood glucose control, such a diet also increases the long-term risk for chronic diseases like cancer, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, chronic kidney disease, and fatty liver disease. The revolutionary solution is to eat a low-fat plant-based whole-food diet, the most powerful way to reverse insulin resistance in all types of diabetes: type 1, type 1.5, type 2, prediabetes, and gestational diabetes. As the creators of the extraordinary and effective Mastering Diabetes Method, Khambatta and Barbaro lay out a step-by-step plan proven to reverse insulin resistance-the root cause of blood glucose variability- while improving overall health and maximizing life expectancy. Armed with more than 800 scientific references and drawing on more than 36 years of personal experience living with type 1 diabetes themselves, the authors show how to eat large quantities of carbohydrate-rich whole foods like bananas, potatoes, and quinoa while decreasing blood glucose, oral medication, and insulin requirements. They also provide life-changing advice on intermittent fasting and daily exercise and offer tips on eating in tricky situations, such as restaurant meals and family dinners. Perhaps best of all: On the Mastering Diabetes Method, you will never go hungry. With more than 30 delicious, filling, and nutrient-dense recipes and backed by cutting-edge nutritional science, Mastering Diabetes will help you maximize your insulin sensitivity, attain your ideal body weight, improve your digestive health, gain energy, live an active life, and feel the best you've felt in years.
Ages 3 to 5 years. Join Katie Kate in the second instalment of this unique educational series as she teaches a young boy how to deal with his diabetes. When Andrew starts feeling funny after a day at the carnival, Dr Caruthers tells him and his parents that there may be something wrong with the way his body uses sugar. At first Andrew is scared and has many questions -- until the Great Katie Kate magically appears once again to get rid of the Worry Wombat. She introduces Andrew to other children who also have diabetes, and even takes him inside the human body to explain what's happening to him. By the time Katie Kate has shown Andrew how to measure his blood sugar, inject insulin, and keep his energy levels up so that he can play with all the other children, the Worry Wombat has completely disappeared. Armed with the knowledge that he can control his condition, Andrew is no longer worried about having diabetes.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can dramatically help individuals with type 2 diabetes make the lifestyle changes necessary for good health. This book develops the results of the latest research on ACT into a radical new approach that can lead to a better life for many sufferers.
This book is written to motivate diabetics, and to give their parents, families, partners and friends an insight into what their beloved diabetic thinks, and how she/he feels. Story-tellers are 6 different people who have been living with diabetes for decades, and regardless of diabetes, today as adults, live fulfilling and quality lives; work, travel, and have families of their own. First story is told by a young and successful thirty-year-old woman who describes her path: her parents' attitude to diabetes and the way it shaped her attitude in adulthood. The story of the stigmatization of children with diabetes, falling in love, going out in the evening ... and finally, pregnancy with diabetes.Second story is telling us that despite growing up in a completely dysfunctional family, a child with diabetes can grow into a healthy, responsible and positive person.Third story is told from a male angle, and is more systematic and less emotionally charged. Perspective of a 40-year-old man who got diabetes when he was a baby, is very different from the previous ones, although the problem is the same. He also describes the attitude of his parents, but he also talks about his work, and his colleagues' attitude towards his diabetes. He specifically referred to the pharmaceutical industry and alternative medicine.Fourth story is told by a woman who, at a certain point in her life, was completely dependent on others, and unable to cope with the challenges of adulthood with diabetes. This is a person who developed chronic complications of diabetes, so in this book she describes the attitude towards that fact as well. Particularly interesting in this story is her experience with falling in love and choosing a life partner, and how diabetes affected her love life.Fifth story teller is a young man who got diabetes during the period of adolescence. He gives us an insight into the feelings of a 16-year-old diabetes patient who cannot cope with the challenges that diabetes brings, and just wants to be a normal teenager. Sixth story is told by a mother of a child with Type 1 diabetes. Positive and inspiring, her thoughts, attitudes and actions should help other parents of children with diabetes to find their own path of dealing with diabetes. Through these true life stories of six real people who have been living well with diabetes for several decades, you will encounter topics such as building responsibility of children with diabetes and strength of adult character, falling in love, obsessions, overriding fears, priorities, awareness of human life span, "otherness", "caring", living by someone else's or own rules, desire for healing, self-understanding, self-worth, burnout, not accepting diabetes, feeling guilty, and many others.
Living with diabetes is hard. It's easy to get discouraged, frustrated, and burned out. Here's an author that understands the emotional rollercoaster and gives you the tools you need to keep from being overwhelmed, addressing such issues as dealing with friends and family, and how you can better handle the stress for better health. Written with compassion and a sprinkle of humor.
When a person receives a diagnosis of diabetes, he or she starts a process of adjusting and making sense of the new normal living with a chronic disease. A large part of that adjustment is figuring out how to balance diabetes with all the intricacies of a life outside of diabetes care. In Balancing Diabetes, diabetes online community blogger Kerri Sparling compiles strategies used by people with diabetes and their caregivers to bring that elusive balance into their lives. Whether adult or child, type 1 or type 2, spouse or caregiver, male or female, people in the diabetes world will find themselves in this book and be inspired by the commonality of that continuing search for balance.
The book food lovers with diabetes have been waiting for: a through-the-menu collection of 250 dishes to meet any craving, from hot and spicy to sweet and sour, from creamy to crunchy, from pastas to dessert. Written by Tom Valenti, one of America's Ten Best Chefs (Food & Wine) and a "clairvoyant in the kitchen" (Ruth Reichl, The New York Times)—and a diabetic—You Don’t Have To Be Diabetic To Love This Cookbook is filled with recipes so delicious, so imaginative, so varied and enticing that it will turn the burden of following a diabetic regimen into a celebration of food. In fact, this is food for everyone in the family to sit down and enjoy, with no penalty to the non-diabetics. Valenti employs innovations and techniques that are a signature of his cuisine—acid to brighten flavors, unexpected combinations of texture and temperature, turkey bacon as a foundation ingredient to add a haunting smoky-salty quality—and he never resorts to imitation products. Recipes include Asparagus and Mushroom Risotto; Chicken Chaat; Filet Mignon with Black and Green Peppercorn Sauce; Snapper Piccata; Grilled Duck Breast Paillard with Orange, Onion, and Mint; Lamb Sausage with Warm Potato Salad; Shrimp and Tomato Ravioli; Goat Cheese Cake; Banana Mousse; Miniature Pumpkin Pies. Real flavors, real food, and finally, real pleasure, for America's 23.6 million diabetics.
It’s projected that in 50 years, one American in three will be diabetic. Many today are well on their way to becoming a sad statistic in the war on obesity, high blood sugar, and the related diseases—including diabetes—that can result from a diet that’s seriously out of whack. In his previous bestselling book, Overcoming Runaway Blood Sugar, Dennis Pollock shared his personal experience with this deadly epidemic—including his success at lowering his runaway blood sugar to acceptable levels. Now Dennis offers readers the next step in the battle: 60 practical ways to manage their blood sugar without resorting to a bland unsatisfying diet of turnips and tuna fish. In this step by step, change by change plan, readers will learn how to: reduce their intake of carbs exercise more effectively shed excess weight A must-have book for readers serious about regaining their health while also lowering their weight and increasing their energy.
