Best Type 2 Diabetes Health
The go-to step-by-step guide that walks you through the first days, weeks, and months of your diagnosisfully revised and updated Gretchen Becker was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1996; over the past twenty years, she has educated herself on every aspect of the condition by reading medical texts and journals, talking with doctors, and corresponding with others who have type 2, sharing everything she's learned in a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide. Emphasizing the self-management skills that all diabetics must master for adequate control of the disease, Becker addresses the questions not always anticipated or answered by healthcare providers. Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans' Hosp., Tampa, FL. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"He, my doctor, had me enroll in a class for diabetics, prescribed some medications, gave me a prescription for a test meter and strips, and told me to come back in two weeks to see how my glucose levels were doing. Applying what I have learned from this book and working with my doctor, I have achieved good control and my last 2 A1c blood tests were 5.3 and 5.8, well within the normal range even with someone not being diabetic."
"Having this disease and who has progressed to where the next move in my treatment is to be placed on a transplant list, it did answered a question or two for me."
"I purchased this book along with a few others to give to my mom who was recently diagnosed."
"Very informative book."
"The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes. When I told a friend that I had been diagnosed with pre-diabetes, she suggested that. I immediately order The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes."
"Half the battle of dealing with health issues is to know what it is & where you can make an impact on it."
When diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, doctors typically tell their patients to start eating healthy. With What Do I Eat Now? She had over 30 years of experience in diabetes care and education and was the 2005 Diabetes Educator of the Year by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics DCE division.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Balanced presentation of the four diets other books try to claim as miracle cures (Mediterranean, vegetarian, low-carb, DASH)."
"Just found out husband is diabetic and needed help."
"Very helpful in figuring out how to prepare foods for a diabetic!"
"Great book, very informative."
"Great help for new diabetics."
"I was looking for substitutions for things I ate like what to eat instead of oatmeal and rice without adding sodium, fat, and calories."
Important physical exams and lab work Conventional diets and non-insulin medications Insulin Low-carb diets and how they apply to different food groups Lifestyle factors, including exercise, stress management, and the microbiome Diabetic supplementation Pediatric diabetes. It begins with a general overview of diabetes and progresses into treatment and management options with special attention given to detailing the patient’s physical exam and describing lab work values. The crux of the book is structured around 'The Eight Essentials,' an integrative protocol consisting of diet, exercise, sleep, stress management, healing the gut and microbiome, environmental detoxification, supplementation, and medications. The science presented is well researched and founded on sound evidence with claims supported by scholarly works, including case reports, systematic reviews, and metaanalyses. What is more, it tells the truth: ‘To be blunt, no person with T2DM should ever wind up on insulin if they follow the protocol established by an integrative physician.’ Type 2 diabetes is both preventable and in a majority of cases can be put into remission.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"As a former Certified Diabetes Nurse Specialist I highly recommend getting this book for patients and Health Care Providers."
"Not only does it cover a multitude of topics but is a reference manual that is essential for anyone dealing with insulin resistance or diabetes."
"If you have diabetes or want to prevent diabetes, buy two copies of Master Your Diabetes: one for yourself and one for your doctor because most doctors do know how to best prevent, manage or even reverse diabetes (reversal applies to gestational and type-2 diabetes)."
"One of the best reads by an expert in the medical fields."
"It has great resources and detailed explanations for all aspects of diabetes."
"Excellent choice!"
"Dr. Morstein is very knowledgeable on the subject."
Best General Diabetes Health
Dr. Fuhrman makes clear that we don’t have to “control” diabetes. JOEL FUHRMAN, M.D., is a board-certified family physician and nutritional researcher who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I hardly ever write reviews but I feel compelled to share my wife, Robyn's, experience after five weeks on Dr. Fuhrman's diet. She ate a full filet of salmon with two cobs of corn and a full cup of great northern beans with onions and garlic. Needless to say, tomorrow we will be back on this diet permanently with only an infrequent special occasion to interrupt it. If you suffer from type 2 diabetes but are willing to dedicate yourself to this diet, make no mistake, it will reverse your disease and give you a great chance at a long, complication-free life. 8-17-2016 UPDATE. New test results from recent blood work: Triglycerides six week ago - 259."
"I started the ADA diet and followed it 100% for a few weeks and could not get my blood sugar to go below 140. I started the diet that day and the next morning my blood sugar was down to 100, the next day was in the 90's and now i have a fasting blood sugar between Mid 70's and the 80's. My doctor took me off the metformin after just one week of being on this lifestyle change."
"When I read the recipes in the back of the book I thought they were so radical that no one, unless they were, 'on death's doorstep', would eat that way. I was diagnosed with diabetes two years ago and since then, my life has been a rollercoaster between feeling awful and just fair. I'm also eating steel cut oats and taking red rice yeast. I see on his website you can sign up, for a nominal sum, and get additional recipes and recommendations, etc., personally, I think that's, 'milking', it but, that's just my opinion. When I began this way of eating, my blood sugar was 7.8 and my doctor wanted to start me on insulin...which I was VERY opposed to. AND, although I stick to it about 99% I do use olive oil when I want to, I eat grilled shrimp on a caesar salad smothered in grated cheese occasionally."