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 1Part I: Dealing with the Onset of Diabetes 7Chapter 1: Dealing with Diabetes 9Chapter 2: It’s the Glucose 19Chapter 3: Pre-diabetes: The Early Years 31Chapter 4: What Type of Diabetes Do You Have? 43Part II: How Diabetes Affects Your Body 63Chapter 5: Battling Short-term Complications 65Chapter 6: Preventing Long-term Complications 79Chapter 7: Diabetes, Sexual Function and Pregnancy 109Part III: Managing Diabetes: The ‘Thriving with Diabetes’ Lifestyle Plan 127Chapter 8: Glucose Monitoring and Other Tests 129Chapter 9: Diabetes Diet Plan 149Chapter 10: Keeping It Moving: Exercise Plan 181Chapter 11: Medication: What You Should Know 197Chapter 12: Diabetes Is Your Show 231Chapter 13: Putting Your Knowledge to Work 243Part IV: Special Considerations for Living with Diabetes 249Chapter 14: Your Child Has Diabetes 251Chapter 15: Diabetes in Your Later Years 267Chapter 16: Driving and Occupational Problems 277Chapter 17: What’s New in Diabetes Care 289Chapter 18: What Doesn’t Work When You’re Treating Diabetes 303Part V: The Part of Tens 313Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Prevent or Reverse the Effects of Diabetes 315Chapter 20: Ten Myths about Diabetes That You Can Forget 321Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Get Others to Help You 327Part VI: Appendixes 335Appendix A: Mini Cookbook 337Appendix B: Exchange Lists 369Appendix C: Dr WW Web 379Index 389