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Foreword | xi | |
Acknowledgments | xiii | |
Introduction | xv | |
Chapter 1. | What Kind of Diabetes Do You Have? | 1 |
A bit of history | 2 | |
Types of diabetes | 3 | |
Problems associated with diabetes | 9 | |
Chapter 2. | Who Gets This Disease? | 11 |
Early forms of diabetes | 13 | |
Gestational diabetes | 13 | |
Secondary types of diabetes | 14 | |
Causes of diabetes | 14 | |
Chapter 3. | How Is Diabetes Treated? | 21 |
Differences in treatment for children and adults | 22 | |
Acute care | 26 | |
Management of Type 1 diabetes | 27 | |
Management of Type 2 diabetes | 30 | |
Special management needs | 31 | |
Chapter 4. | Educating Yourself About Diabetes | 35 |
Levels of education | 36 | |
Choosing an education program | 39 | |
How can education help you? | 40 | |
Chapter 5. | Meal Planning | 41 |
Basic eating guidelines | 42 | |
Baseline meal planning | 46 | |
Special needs | 51 | |
Chapter 6. | Diabetes Medication | 55 |
Oral agents | 56 | |
Insulin | 64 | |
Methods of insulin delivery | 70 | |
Chapter 7. | What Is Important About Exercise? | 85 |
Benefits of exercise | 85 | |
Precautions in exercising | 88 | |
The "exercise prescription" | 92 | |
Chapter 8. | What About Hygiene? | 95 |
Dental care | 95 | |
Skin care | 97 | |
Foot care | 98 | |
Eye care | 101 | |
Sexually related hygiene | 103 | |
Chapter 9. | How Is Diabetes Monitored? | 107 |
Frequency of testing | 108 | |
What to test | 109 | |
Using information from testing | 113 | |
Testing supplies and equipment | 116 | |
Summary | 124 | |
Chapter 10. | Possible Complications of Diabetes | 127 |
Acute complications | 128 | |
Intermediate complications | 134 | |
Chronic complications | 137 | |
Chapter 11. | How Do You Adjust to Having Diabetes? | 145 |
Reacting to the diagnosis | 145 | |
Family support | 150 | |
Chapter 12. | How Stress Affects Diabetes | 151 |
Acute response | 152 | |
Chronic response | 152 | |
Other responses | 153 | |
Stress management | 154 | |
Chapter 13. | Helping Your Health-Care Team to Help You | 161 |
Program management | 161 | |
Record keeping | 162 | |
Reporting | 165 | |
Chapter 14. | Helping Your Family and Friends | 167 |
Increasing their understanding | 167 | |
Gaining their support | 168 | |
Grieving | 170 | |
Chapter 15. | What Is Being Done to Conquer Diabetes and Improve Its Management? | 171 |
Transplants | 171 | |
Artificial transplants | 174 | |
New treatments | 176 | |
Finding the cause | 179 | |
Update for management of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes | 181 | |
Funding for research | 183 | |
Appendices | 185 | |
A | Food Questionnaire | 185 |
B | Recommended Dietary Allowances | 191 |
C | American Diabetes Association Exchange Lists | 197 |
D | Points in Nutrition | 229 |
E | Restaurant Guide | 233 |
F | Metabolic (MET) Levels of Activities | 245 |
G | Some Calorie/Exercise Expenditures | 249 |
H | Diabetes Resources | 253 |
I | American Diabetes Association Regional and State Offices | 259 |
J | Summer Camps for Children with Diabetes | 267 |
K | Glossary of Diabetes-Related Terms | 275 |
L | Diabetes Related Web Sites | 293 |
Bibliography | 295 | |
Index | 303 |
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