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Diabetes For Dummies |  | Author: Alan L. Rubin MD
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 15806
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 2
Pages: 408
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.462
ASIN: B001EW52VK
Publication Date: July 28, 2008
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"The Greeks and Romans knew about diabetes. Fortunately, the way they tested for the condition--by tasting the urine--has gone by the wayside." Diabetes for Dummies has the friendly, quirky style you expect from all the For Dummies books, but this is no skim-the-surface Diabetes 101. Rubin has packed this book with useful information, peppered with warm advice for enjoying your life while living with diabetes. One of his points is that although you'd rather not have this disease, you're lucky to have it now instead of a few decades ago, because today you can manage diabetes and live a productive, quality-filled life. The book is divided into sections on "Dealing with the Onset of Diabetes," "How Diabetes Affects Your Body," "Managing Diabetes: The 'Thriving with Diabetes' Lifestyle Plan," and "Special Considerations for Living with Diabetes." Each chapter is packed with facts and strategies on topics such as monitoring, battling complications, medications, diet, and exercise. If you skim, it's an introduction to diabetes; if you read it carefully, it's a textbook. Web surfers will appreciate the "Dr. W.W. Web" appendix, where Rubin lists many useful diabetes Web sites. (If you'd rather click than type, you can visit Rubin's Web site, where he offers links to all the diabetes sites.) Also included is a mini-cookbook of multiethnic recipes from noted restaurants, mostly in San Francisco (with the restaurant address, in case you want to order instead of cook). --Joan Price
Product Description
Diabetes affects millions of Americans each year, but thanks to medical breakthroughs, many diabetics live long and happy lives. In a sense, a diagnosis of diabetes is both good and bad news, with the bad news being that you-ve been diagnosed, but the good news being that you-ll make some changes in your lifestyle that will not only prevent complications but help you lead a healthier life. Now in its second edition, Diabetes For Dummies provides the most up-to-date information about the disease, covering everything from new medications to recent studies on ethnic groups and children. This trusted guide shows you what you need to know to: - Understand the causes and effects
- Battle short-term complications
- Prevent long-term complications
- Monitor your glucose
- Select a diet plan that-s right for you
- Develop an effective exercise routine
- Choose and use medicine safely
- Deal with you child-s diabetes
- Care for the elderly with diabetes
- Cook great diabetes-friendly meals
Packed with ways to prevent or reverse the effects of diabetes and Web sites to find out more, as well as exposing myths about the disease, this is the ultimate guide to understanding and managing diabetes. You-ll even find delicious recipes from top chefs that satisfy every palette. Don-t let this disease stop you from enjoying life-survive and thrive with Diabetes For Dummies, Second Edition!
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 Diabetes for Dummies August 23, 2010
Lesley McNabb (Crystal River, Florida)
I ordered this as a gift and it arrived in three days. Great service.
An excellent basic guide for anyone with diabetes. August 20, 2010
Joseph J. Truncale (Chicago, Il)
Like many of the previous reviewers, I was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It was quite a life change for me, and I immediately went out and searched for foods that would help me control my problem. I also picked up this book and read it cover to cover in one sitting. This little book provided the essential information I needed to understand and control my diabetes.
This book is organized into 8 chapters. Getting the Lowdown on Diabetes, Understanding Types of Diabetes, Glucose Monitoring and other tests, Investigating Oal Medications, Using Insulin, Looking into a Diabetes Diet Plan, Exercise Plans and Ten Ways to Manage Diabetes.
In conclusion, this is a book that will be of value for anyone with diabetes. Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Martial Art Myths, Never Trust a Politician, Season of the Warrior, Haiku Moments: How to Read, Write and Enjoy Haiku, Monadnock Defensive Tactics System, Use of the Monadnock Straight Baton, PR-24 Police Baton Advanced Techniques, Pro-Systems Combatives Vol. 1, 2.)
Excellent first book July 5, 2010
Jefferson D. Bronfeld (Binghamton, New York USA)
Excellent first book on diabetes, and a good reference thereafter. Good "first place to look" for troubling questions or to have better questions for your doctors.
 The second worst book I've read on diabetes June 6, 2010
Iona Tamsin Stewart (Odense, Denmark)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the second worst book on diabetes I've read. (I see that the worst book has got good reviews on amazon.com, and is not available on amazon.co.uk. I myself have reviewed it on Facebook.)
After much consideration I've given the book presently under review two stars (at first I wanted to give it only one). It gets the two stars for the vast amount of medical information given, though as it is written by two traditional doctors, this is traditional information, much of it in my view erroneous. But it also provides a lot of presumably correct information I've seen nowhere else, such as practical information about driving in relation to diabetics and dealing with discrimination at work. This is a British book (I don't know whether there is also an American version), so much of it refers to British legislation and help available in the U.K.. It also contains information I haven't seen before about coping with diabetes and pregnancy, sexual function and diabetes foot care.
I learn something from nearly all the books on diabetes I read, and in this case I learnt that the B-vitamin nicotine amide constitutes a protective factor against diabetes, Nice to know.
The main criticism I have of the book is as follows:
Though the authors in various places mention the importance of a low-carbohydrate diet, in practice it turns out that they have apparently little understanding of what this in fact involves. It is of course correctly stated that all refined carbohydrates should be avoided - at least theoretically they got that right. Except that they actually didn't since sugar, lots of fruit and sweet desserts are absolutely permissible in the view of these two doctors.
But it is not even enough to eat only complex carbohydrates with a low GI-Index. You have to eat a reduced AMOUNT of these carbohydrates. Dr. Bernstein, the author of "Dr. Bernstein's diabetes solution", whom I regard as the absolute authority on managing diabetes, if not curing it, recommends a carbohydrate content of 6 g. for breakfast and 12 g. for each of the two subsequent meals. He has himself suffered from type 1 diabetes since the age of 12, and is totally dependent on insulin.
The book under review contains a small section on counting carbohydrates. but there is no indication at all about how many grams of carbohydrate should be allowed at each meal for optimal blood sugar control. And in a, for me, shocking section of the book under the heading "Carbohydrate counting to maximum health" an example is given of a typical "well-controlled" type 1 patient's carbohydrate intake. His breakfast intake is stated as containing, for example, 80 (!) grams of carbohydrate, his lunch contains 120 grams carbohydrate and his supper "only" 60 grams of carbohydrate! Compare please these amounts to Dr. Bernstein's recommended 6g, 12 g and 12 g.
There were innumerable irritating not to mention fallacious or outrageous statements in this book:
1)Statins and aspartame are described as "excellent" (See "Fat and cholesterol are good for you" by Uffe Ravnskov and "The great cholesterol myth" by Malcolm Kendrick on the so-called "excellence" of statins) and google "aspartame" to find information on the toxicity of this potent additive. The use of the word "excellent" in connection with both these toxins seriously tarnishes the credibility of the authors of this book.
2) The authors dismiss the possibility that chromium, Gymnema silvestre and other substances can be at all useful in the regulation of diabetes. Being doctors, they seem to regard minerals, vitamins and other natural substances as they would regard potent drugs, and don't realize that what is important is the COMBINED factors of a good (low-carbohydrate) diet and the provision of all essential vitamins and minerals, including, for example, Vanadium, which they have neglected to mention as an important mineral relevant in the treatment of diabetes, the importance of which they would call in question. Moreover, they claim that British people are not deficient in chromium. How do they know this?
3) They state: "Genetic inheritance causes type 2 diabetes". This is a sweeping statement, the truth of which I would absolutely contest. There may of course be genetic factors involved, but the vital factor must be lifestyle.
4) The authors propagate the myth that "you generally get enough vitamins for your daily needs." Especially as regards chronically ill persons such as diabetics this statement is absolutely fallacious.
5) They keep reiterating that "diabetes lasts for life", which is a negative affirmation to keep hearing, especially since in fact it is possible for some to be cured of diabetes, but only as long as they adhere to a correct diet (see Cass Ingram's book "Natural cures for diabetes").
6) Being doctors, their main focus as regards a "cure" for diabetes is new drugs, and we know that drugs generally prove harmful in the one way or the other.
As regards point 6), I would state that much of the book is focussed on the various drugs available for diabetics, and though many of these are recommended by the authors, to their credit their dangers are stated. I'm no expert on diabetes drugs, but I would like to point out that Dr. Bernstein, who is, advises against the use of sulphonyureas.
I could write pages more on the criticizable elements of this book, but this must be more than enough.
Suffice to say that I do not recommend this book, though it does contain theoretical and practical information about the disease and its complications.
 helpful April 16, 2010
Diane P. Dibble
very helpful reference book for anyone who wants to learn about diabetes for themselves or just in general.
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