Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook, The

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Review: Maturity onset or Type 2 diabetes is a manageable disease. The Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook, which has been completely and recently updated, guides you step-by-step through its management, explaining the steps you can take to keep yourself healthy and well on a day-to-day basis. You can successfully manage maturity onset or Type 2 diabetes using the information presented in this book. Type 2 diabetes is a complicated disease to manage, but scientific understanding of how to treat diabetes has come a long way in the past few years. The tools you use to help yourself are very simple to understand and apply, and educating yourself will combat the fear and dread associated with the presence of any chronic disease

Good self-management involves several tools-blood testing, diet, exercise, stress reduction, and medications. All these elements are simple in themselves, but they must be coordinated to be most effective. The Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook gives you solid information to help you coordinate these elements in a good, healthy program of self-management, in conjunction with your medical doctor and your treatment team.

Keith S. Richman, M.D., M.P.H., past president of the American Diabetes Association's San Fernando Valley chapter, has called this book "one of the most useful books I've ever read on the self-management of Type 2 or adult-onset diabetes." Dr. Richman described The Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook as "packed with an amazing amount of solid medical information." He concluded, "This wonderfully supportive book guides you step-by-step through the successful self-management of diabetes in partnership with your physician. The Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook belongs on the bookshelf of every person with diabetes."

The Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook includes the types of testing you and your medical team should do, what the results of these tests mean, and how to take care of yourself in a day-to-day program of good nutrition, sensible exercise, and personal hygiene are included here.

Fear is the enemy of self-management. The Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook meets that fear with solid medical information supplied by leading organizations such as the American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetic Association. The "Patient's Bill of Rights," listing the type of medical examinations you should receive and tests which should be given to you is included, as is information on managing possible complications, gestational diabetes, and more.

These days, medical doctors who are pressed to treat more patients in less time often don't have the time to answer many simple basic questions about the biology and management of Type II diabetes. This book combats ignorance and fear with the latest solid scientific and medical information. The Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook will help empower people with maturity onset diabetes, so that they may ultimately help themselves.

The Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook was written by David Drum, the author of several medical books, and Terry Zierenberg, RN, CDE, a well-known registered nurse and certified diabetes educator. For many years, Terry Zierenberg served as program coordinator for the Encino-Tarzana Hospital's Diabetes Care Center, the largest and most comprehensive diabetes care program in Los Angeles.

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