The straight facts on treating diabetes successfully and living a full and active life

Want to know how to manage your diabetes? This friendly book offers you reassuring guidance in putting together a state-of-the-art treatment program. Discover all the advances in monitoring glucose, the latest medications, and how to develop a diet and exercise plan to stay healthy. Full of interesting anecdotes and helpful advice, this is your ultimate diabetes reference.

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  Get the latest information — read about the newest recommendations from the Canadian Diabetes Association and the up-and-coming advances in medicines and monitors

   

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  Handle low and high blood-glucose emergencies — learn how to identify the symptoms that require urgent attention and how to treat the problem

   

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  Manage diabetes and pregnancy — know what to do during pregnancy to help ensure a healthy baby

   

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  Get to know your health care team — find the health care providers you need, from your family physician to your diabetes nurse educator to your dietitian, and more

   

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  Manage your diabetes through exercise and nutritional know-how — achieve and maintain good diabetes health with suggested exercises and healthy eating tips

   

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  Control your blood glucose through medication — find out everything you need to know, from treatment tips to potential side-effects

   

"Finally there is a book that I can recommend to people with diabetes."
–Dr. Anne Kenshole, Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

Open the book and find:

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  The symptoms and causes of your diabetes

   

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  How to monitor and record your blood glucose levels

   

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  Tips for taking and caring for insulin

   

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  Guidance on getting the vitamins and minerals you need from your diet

   

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  How to incorporate exercise into your diabetes treatment plan

   

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  What you need to know about alternative medicines

   

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  Ways to get the best possible health care

   

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  Useful Web sites to help keep you informed

   

Ian Blumer, M.D. grew up in Montreal, did his post-graduate training in Toronto and London, Ontario, and has set up practice in internal medicine in Ajax. He has a subspecialty interest in diabetes and thyroid disease. Dr. Blumer and his wife (a rheumatologist) have three children.

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