Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I: Dealing with the Onset of Diabetes 7
Chapter 1: Dealing with Diabetes 9
Chapter 2: It’s the Glucose 17
Chapter 3: What Type of Diabetes Do You Have? 25
Chapter 4: Taking Preventive Measures 41
Chapter 5: Dealing with Prediabetes 51
Part II: How Diabetes Affects Your Body 59
Chapter 6: Managing the Lumps and Bumps of Day-to-Day Diabetes 61
Chapter 7: Preventing Long-Term Complications 79
Chapter 8: Fabulous Feet 111
Part III: Living with Diabetes: Your Physical Health 121
Chapter 9: Glucose Monitoring and Other Tests 123
Chapter 10: Medications: What You Should Know 137
Chapter 11: Healthy Eating in Diabetes 161
Chapter 12: Keeping It Moving: Exercise Plan 191
Part IV: Living with Diabetes: Your Mental Health 203
Chapter 13: Mind Matters: Mental Health in Diabetes 205
Chapter 14: Diabetes Is Your Show 223
Chapter 15: Putting Your Knowledge to Work for You 231
Part V: Special Considerations for Living with Diabetes 239
Chapter 16: Your Child Has Diabetes 241
Chapter 17: Diabetes and the Older Person 253
Chapter 18: Diabetes and Pregnancy 261
Chapter 19: Occupational and Insurance Problems 275
Chapter 20: Advances in Diabetes Care 283
Chapter 21: What Doesn’t Work When You’re Treating Diabetes 289
Part VI: The Part of Tens 297
Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Prevent or Reverse the Effects of Diabetes 299
Chapter 23: Ten Myths about Diabetes That You Can Forget 307
Chapter 24: Ten Types of Websites to Learn More about Diabetes 315
Part VII: Appendixes 323
Appendix A: Insulin Pumps 325
Appendix B: Mental Health Exercises 331
Glossary 337
Index 343