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Diabetes For Dummies

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Diabetes For Dummies by Amy Riolo, Alan L. Rubin, and Simon Poole provides a comprehensive guide to understanding and managing diabetes. This book offers practical advice on diet, exercise, medication, and lifestyle adjustments to help individuals live well with the condition. It is designed to be an accessible resource, helping readers make informed decisions about their health.
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You might enjoy this book if you're looking for accessible, thorough guidance on living with diabetes. It provides practical tips, clear explanations, and expert insights to help manage the condition effectively, making it a valuable resource for both newly diagnosed individuals and those who've been managing diabetes for years.

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Provides information about all aspects of diabetes, exploring current treatments for the disease, offering recipes for healthy meals for diabetics, and discussing the symptoms and effects of diabetes.

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The book thatโ€™s been helping people with diabetes live their best lives for 20 years

Diabetes For Dummies is a trusted resource that guides those diagnosed with diabetes and pre-diabetes and their caregivers towards optimal health. This book helps you, or those you love, achieve the life you want while managing diabetes with lifestyle changes, alternative therapies, and the latest medications.

This fully updated edition helps you tackle your symptoms with the confidence that youโ€™re doing the latest stuff and following the newest advances in diabetes treatment. Powerful lifestyle strategies, new medications, monitoring equipment, nutritional guidelines, delicious recipes, and insulin delivery methodsโ€”itโ€™s all in this friendly Dummies guide.

  • Understand the types of diabetes and learn about your diagnosis.
  • Learn the latest treatment options, medications, and evidence-based therapies.
  • Manage your symptoms and live a full life with expert diet and lifestyle tips.
  • Answer your questions with this trusted, compassionate guide, now in its 6th edition.
  • Take control and understand how to improve or even prevent and reverse prediabetes and diabetes.

This book is an indispensable resource for those newly diagnosed with diabetes, and prediabetes, their loved ones, and caregivers, as well as health care professionals who need an up-to-date reference on the latest in diabetes research.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119912583

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 May 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: For Dummies

Edition: 6th edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 185.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 590g

Pages: 448

About the Author

Dr. Simon Poole is a doctor, author, speaker, and consultant. Simon treats patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes from the time of diagnosis onward and is an authority on the Mediterranean diet.

Amy Riolo is an award-winning author and chef. Sheโ€™s also the author of Mediterranean Lifestyle For Dummies and Italian Recipes For Dummies.

Alan L. Rubin, MD is the original author of Diabetes For Dummies.

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