Diabetes Do's & How-To's: Small yet powerful steps to take charge, eat right, get fit and stay positive

by Riva Greenberg, Gary Feit (Editor), Haidee Merritt (Illustrations)

Want to succeed managing your diabetes? Now you can. Diabetes Do's & How-To's is the quintessential "owner's manual" for those with diabetes and pre-diabetes. Here are the small, yet powerful steps to live healthfully with diabetes -- and guidance how to take them. This book isn't about diabetes, it's an instruction manual for, simply and quickly, creating your best health. Riva Greenberg, a diabetes educator and patient who's had diabetes for forty years, clears up the confusion, stops the overwhelm, and with a team of top diabetes experts, guides you through 65 steps to improve how you deal with food and eat healthy, bring your weight within a normal range if necessary, begin or accelerate your fitness and enjoy it, manage your medicines, lab tests and doctor visits, progress while staying positive, and so much more. Worksheets help you start new goals, fellow patients share personal "How-To's," and Haidee S. Merritt's cartoons put a smile on your face. A section is also dedicated to health care professionals to help you further help your patients succeed.

296 pages, Paperback

First published November 14, 2012

Reviews

[Akshay Jain · Rating 5 out of 5]

As being a newly diagnosed Diabetic, I found this book quite interesting. However this book is primarily targeted for American readers but most of the tips make sense to non Americans as well.

[Karen Logan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was hesitant about this book at first, but I gradually realized that there is a wealth of information here that can be looked at and thought about over and over. Diabetes is a progressive disease so something that is of no value to you now may be useful information later on. I do hope that this book will continue to be updated in years to come so that it will never be considered outdated. Totally recommended as a valuable source of information about living with any type of diabetes.