Diabetes For Dummies, 5th Edition

Learn to:

• Reduce your risk of diabetes complications
• Discover the latest and the tried-and-true options for monitoring blood sugar
• Get up to speed on the various medications and lifestyle strategies
• Improve diabetes control and overall health

Take control of your health—and manage and treat diabetes successfully

If you're diabetic or prediabetic, you'll take comfort in the authoritative information in this hands-on guide. From monitoring and maintaining your glucose to understanding the importance of exercising and eating right, Diabetes For Dummies takes the guesswork out of living with diabetes and empowers you to keep your life on a healthy track.

• Demystify diabetes — recognize the various types of diabetes, find sensitive guidance on coping with a diagnosis, and discover how to maintain a high quality of life
• Thrive with diabetes — discover how to self-test for glucose, tackle what you should eat, create your exercise plan, use medications successfully, and get the scoop on metabolic surgery
• Live life well — find out how to avoid short-term complications, ward off long-term complications, preserve sexual function, and protect pregnancy
• Take special note — get helpful guidance on managing diabetes in children and the elderly, find solutions to occupational and insurance problems, and discover the latest advances in diabetes care

Open the book and find:

• The anatomy behind diabetes
• Advice on creating a team to help you manage your diabetes
• More about metabolic surgery, a possible cure for some diabetics
• Why the Mediterranean diet is one of the best diet/lifestyles for diabetics
• Ten ways to prevent or reverse the effects of diabetes
• Myths about diabetes that you can forget
• Diabetes-friendly recipes