The Diabetes Sports and Exercise Book: How to Play Your Way to Better Health - Hardcover

Graham, Claudia; Biermann, June; Toohey, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565652061 ISBN 13: 9781565652064

Publisher: Lowell House, 1995

Synopsis

Discusses the day-to-day control of diabetes through personal exercise programs, and offers success stories as examples

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Review

"Exercise is the fun part of diabetes therapy," asserts The Diabetes Sports and Exercise Book. This is a new, completely updated edition of a book that forged new ground when first published in 1977. At that time, health professionals told people with diabetes to "slow down" and "rest," not realizing how important physical activity was. Now exercise is considered one of the three basic components of diabetes control, helping to bring down high blood sugars, manage weight, raise spirits, and decrease stress and fatigue. Exercise creates "invisible insulin," as if you're getting an extra shot or taking an extra blood-sugar-lowering pill. This book is written as a dialogue between Graham, a diabetes expert (who has Type I diabetes) with a Ph.D. in exercise science; and Biermann and Toohey, authors of many books on diabetes, including the first edition of this book. The result reads like an informal, friendly interview, where facts and tips emerge painlessly. You learn the benefits of exercise for diabetes control, how to choose activities and exercise correctly, ways to fit physical activity into your life, how to exercise if you have complications, and sports and exercise for diabetic children and seniors. You'll be inspired by the chapter that revisits the people who were interviewed in the first edition--they're still passionate about exercise. --Joan Price

About this edition

• Publisher: Lowell House
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1565652061
• ISBN 13: 9781565652064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220