Complete Guide to Carb Counting: How to Take the Mystery Out of Carb Counting and Improve Your Blood Glucose Control - Softcover

Warshaw R.D., Hope S.; Kulkarni M.S., Karmeen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580404367 ISBN 13: 9781580404365

Publisher: American Diabetes Association, 2011

Synopsis

The completely revised Complete Guide to Carb Counting, 3rd edition, by the American Diabetes Association, provides you with the knowledge and the tools to put carbohydrate counting into practice. Rewritten and reorganized to introduce and explain carb counting concepts as you'll need them in your diabetes care plan, you'll learn why carb counting helps you manage your blood sugar, the amount of carb to eat, how to count the carbohydrates in meals, and how to count carbs using food labels, restaurant menus, and your eyes, too. This is THE meal planning system every carb-counting person with diabetes needs to manage their blood glucose.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Would you like to learn what foods will make your blood sugar rise and how high? How about what your blood sugar levels will be tomorrow and the next day? Wherever you are, whatever meal you eat, the answer is in the amount of carbohydrate you eat. Carb counting unlocks the secrets of blood sugar control and helps you avoid the dangers that can occur when your sugar is too high or too low.

The ADA Complete Guide to Carb Counting provides you with all the knowledge and the tools you need to put carb counting into practice. Whether you choose to do basic carb counting or move on to advanced, you'll learn why carb counting helps control blood sugar, the amount of carb to eat, how to count the carb in your meals, and how to count carbs using food labels, restaurant menus, and your eyes, too. It is THE meal planning system that really helps you tighten up your diabetes control, no matter how you manage your diabetes.

The ADA Complete Guide to Carb Counting includes:

• Everything you need to know about carbs
• Carb counts for everyday foods
• Checklists to identify the skills you need to count carbs
• Stories from people who are using carb counting
• How to adjust insulin to the food you eat
• More!

About the Author

Author Profiles
Hope S. Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE, BC-ADM, is a nationally recognized expert on healthy eating and meal planning with diabetes. She is the author of many ADA books, including the recently published Real-Life Guide to Diabetes, American Diabetes Association Guide to Healthy Restaurant Eating, and the Diabetes Food and Nutrition Bible.

Karmeen Kulkarni, MS, RD, CDE, BC-ADM, works at the Diabetes Center at St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City. She has had great success for 15 years using the carb-counting system with her clients who have diabetes. In 2006, she was ADA President, Health Care & Education.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Diabetes Association
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580404367
• ISBN 13: 9781580404365
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 192