Diabetes For Dummies, UK Edition

Dr Alan L Rubin is a diabetes specialist. Dr Sarah Jarvis has been a GP for 20 years. She is the resident doctor on both BBC's The One Show and on Radio 2, as well as writing regular columns for Good Housekeeping and My Weekly magazines. Sarah has a particular interest in diabetes and cardiovascular disease and chairs the Health Care Committee of HEART UK, the cholesterol charity.

Introduction 1

Part I: Dealing with the Onset of Diabetes 7

Chapter 1: Dealing with Diabetes 9

Chapter 2: It’s the Glucose 19

Chapter 3: Pre-diabetes: The Early Years 31

Chapter 4: What Type of Diabetes Do You Have? 43

Part II: How Diabetes Affects Your Body 63

Chapter 5: Battling Short-term Complications 65

Chapter 6: Preventing Long-term Complications 79

Chapter 7: Diabetes, Sexual Function and Pregnancy 109

Part III: Managing Diabetes: The ‘Thriving with Diabetes’ Lifestyle Plan 127

Chapter 8: Glucose Monitoring and Other Tests 129

Chapter 9: Diabetes Diet Plan 149

Chapter 10: Keeping It Moving: Exercise Plan 181

Chapter 11: Medication: What You Should Know 197

Chapter 12: Diabetes Is Your Show 231

Chapter 13: Putting Your Knowledge to Work 243

Part IV: Special Considerations for Living with Diabetes 249

Chapter 14: Your Child Has Diabetes 251

Chapter 15: Diabetes in Your Later Years 267

Chapter 16: Driving and Occupational Problems 277

Chapter 17: What’s New in Diabetes Care 289

Chapter 18: What Doesn’t Work When You’re Treating Diabetes 303

Part V: The Part of Tens 313

Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Prevent or Reverse the Effects of Diabetes 315

Chapter 20: Ten Myths about Diabetes That You Can Forget 321

Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Get Others to Help You 327

Part VI: Appendixes 335

Appendix A: Mini Cookbook 337

Appendix B: Exchange Lists 369

Appendix C: Dr WW Web 379

Index 389