Diabetes

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General Diabetes Topics
 

• American Diabetes Association Complete Guide to Diabetes. This wide-ranging home reference guide explains how to manage diabetes and how to assemble a strong healthcare team. Topics include symptoms and causes, diagnosis and treatment, complications, tight control, nutrition, exercise, sex, pregnancy, handling emergencies, and injecting insulin. 1999.
   
• Growing Up with Diabetes: What Children Want Their Parents to Know, Alicia McAuliffe. Twenty-year-old Alicia McAuliffe, diagnosed with diabetes at age 11, examines the issues that may disrupt relationships in families with children with diabetes. The author argues that managing the social and emotional challenges that diabetes causes for children are as important as treating the disease itself. The book describes children's post-diagnosis emotions, how to work through their frustrations, the importance of giving them independence as they grow up, and how to deal with the pressures of doctors, relatives, and friends. Wiley, John & Sons, Inc., 1998.
  
• The Joslin Guide to Diabetes: A Program for Managing Your Treatment, Richard S. Beaser with Joan V.C. Hill. Written by the chairman of patient education at Joslin Diabetes Center, one of the nation's foremost diabetes research centers and clinics, this comprehensive book offers diabetes management advice and techniques developed at the clinic. Topics include insulin pumps, medical tests, diabetes pills, guidelines for office visits, current research, and the need for proper diet, exercise, and frequent blood sugar monitoring. The book also features 40 charts, line drawings, and graphs. Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks, 1995.
  
• Numb Toes and Aching Soles: Coping With Peripheral Neuropathy, John A. Senneff. This comprehensive guide is geared toward the millions of people who suffer from peripheral neuropathy (PN) -- a painful diabetes-related nerve disorder. A well-organized reference, the book clearly outlines symptoms and causes, and details the spectrum of treatments including pain medications and other medical therapies, alternative treatments, vitamins, and experimental drugs. A final section on coping with pain explores ways that people suffering from PN can improve their overall quality of life. Medpress, 1999.
  
• Showdown with Diabetes, Deb Butterfield. The author writes a personal account of living with diabetes from age 10 to 34, when a pancreas and kidney transplant freed her from the disease. Butterfield argues that the focus in diabetes research and politics should move from management to a cure -- and that any blame should move from the person with diabetes to the disease itself. The book features an overview of the latest treatment advances and covers the development of pancreas and islet-cell transplants. W.W. Norton, 1999.

Food and carb-counting 

• The Art of Cooking for the Diabetic, Katherine Middleton and Mary Hess. First published in 1978, the new edition of this popular cookbook reflects recent changes in diabetes management and dietary recommendations with its 375 low-calorie, low-fat, high-fiber recipes. The book translates strict dietary instructions into easy-to-prepare foods, from pancakes and pizza to pasta and raspberry mousse. It uses visual guides to assist in portion control -- for example, by describing one ounce of cheese as being the size of a domino. Other topics include exercise, food-exchange lists, alcohol, dining out, and eating while traveling. NTC Publishing Group, 1998.
  
• The Glucose Revolution: The Authoritative Guide to the Glycemic Index, Jennie Brand-Miller, Kaye Foster-Powell, and Thomas Wolever. The glycemic index is a way to manage diet for better control of blood glucose levels, by emphasizing foods with a low glycemic index -- a slow rate of conversion into glucose -- rather than foods that convert quickly. Part one of this book features a scientific explanation of a balanced diet, while part two addresses blood glucose control and other benefits of foods with a low glycemic index. The book includes more than 50 recipes for meals and snacks and a glycemic index for 300 foods and beverages. Marlowe & Company, 1999.
  
• The New Soul Food Cookbook for People with Diabetes, Fabiola Demps Gaines and Roniece Weaver. This African-American cookbook for people with diabetes features easy-to-fix modifications or substitutes for many of the authors' favorite traditional Southern dishes. For example, instead of barbecued pork and fried chicken, they suggest pork tenderloin (a leaner cut) and broiled chicken with a honey-mustard sauce. You'll find more than 150 low-fat recipes, from appetizers and salads to main dishes and desserts, as well as advice for reducing fat, calories, and sodium. American Diabetes Association, 1999.

Handbooks 

• The Healing Handbook for Persons with Diabetes. Sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, this illustrated diabetes textbook is both comprehensive and easy to read. It is also available in Spanish.