Diabetes Do's & How-To's: Small yet powerful steps to take charge, eat right, get fit and stay positive - Softcover

Greenberg, Riva

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982290616 ISBN 13: 9780982290613

Publisher: SPI Management LLC, 2013

Synopsis

Want to succeed managing your diabetes? Now you can. Diabetes Do's & How-To's is the quintessential "owner's manual" for those with diabetes and pre-diabetes. Here are the small, yet powerful steps to live healthfully with diabetes -- and guidance how to take them. This book isn't about diabetes, it's an instruction manual for, simply and quickly, creating your best health. Riva Greenberg, a diabetes educator and patient who's had diabetes for forty years, clears up the confusion, stops the overwhelm, and with a team of top diabetes experts, guides you through 65 steps to improve how you deal with food and eat healthy, bring your weight within a normal range if necessary, begin or accelerate your fitness and enjoy it, manage your medicines, lab tests and doctor visits, progress while staying positive, and so much more. Worksheets help you start new goals, fellow patients share personal "How-To's," and Haidee S. Merritt's cartoons put a smile on your face. A section is also dedicated to health care professionals to help you further help your patients succeed.

About this title

From the Author:

Your history
doesn't have to be
your future.

What counts
is what
you do next.

What one small step
can you take today
to live with diabetes
a little better?

Take it.

I frequently travel across the US, and to other countries, speaking to people with diabetes, and hear: "Can I eat fried chicken?" "What's the best thing to have for breakfast?" "My blood sugar's fine in the morning, why is my doctor telling me to take another pill?" 

I hear confusion, which is understandable because diabetes is a complex, chronic condition that we patients, not our doctors, have to manage. I also see that the vast majority of people who have trouble managing their diabetes aren't lazy or unmotivated; rather they don't know what to do--and how to do it. 

I wrote this book to answer the urgent need all of us have for simple, clear information about what to do to take care of our diabetes and how to do it. While you may spend up to a dozen hours with your health care providers each year, you spend more than 8,700 hours on your own, making daily decisions that affect your diabetes. Now, with this book, you have the ability to make those decisions smart and healthful.

From the Back Cover:

This is the diabetes book every patient and health care provider needs!
"Riva's work and passion has been an inspiration in my life and my diabetes goals. She is an excellent example of living one's best life with diabetes, and inspiring others to live their best life."-- Charles Mattocks, Celebrity Chef, Filmmaker, Author"Anyone who can make diabetes seem like an asset is the person I want to take advice from. Riva Greenberg uses diabetes to set goals and overcome obstacles the way a runner trains for the marathon--and her positive attitude is infectious. This is the Bible for anyone living with diabetes."-- Helaine Ciporen, LCSW, Mount Sinai Hospital Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology, and Founder, DiabetesFamilies.com"Again Riva looks through her unique window into the world of diabetes and comes up with things to do to live better. For those with diabetes, who live with someone with diabetes, and who take care of patients...I recommend this book (and her other two books) to all."--Gerald Bernstein, MD, Director, Friedman Diabetes Institute and Past President, American Diabetes Association

About this edition

• Publisher: SPI Management LLC
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0982290616
• ISBN 13: 9780982290613
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Feit Gary
• Illustrator: Merritt Haidee