Complete Diabetes Guide: Advice for Managing Type 2 Diabetes (Health and Wellness) by Karen Graham RD CDE

The essential guide for understanding and managing type 2 diabetes with companion recipes. A new edition of Karen Graham's diabetes guide is a companion to Diabetes Essentials and Diabetes Meals for Good Health Cookbook. Recent CDC reports indicate that over 30 million Americans have diabetes and another 84 million have prediabetes. This new edition of one of the most highly-respected resources on the subject offers new easy-to-understand content based on the latest medical expertise on diabetes from Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator Karen Graham and MD and Endocrinologist Mansur Shomali. Complete Diabetes Guide features essential information on underlying causes, clinical features, and effective management options and treatments along with personalized meal plans and lifestyle recommendations. This is a vital resource for anyone who has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes or who is at risk of developing it. The book is packed with useful and accessible information. A "Learning About Diabetes" section includes risks, symptoms and complications while a section on "Taking Medication and Tests" covers everything from low blood sugar and testing your own blood sugar to preparing for regular laboratory tests. A 7-Deal Meal Plan takes the guess-work out of a week's worth of healthy eating and a "Hands-on-Food Guide" offers nutrition tips, along with activity and fitness plan recommendations. The chapter on Managing at Other Life Stages covers topics such as teenagers with type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes and sexuality and diabetes. Read more

From the Publisher KAREN GRAHAM IS AN AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND EDUCATOR, a registered dietitian, certified diabetes educator and author. Over the last 30 years, Karen has worked at several clinics and counseled over 5,000 clients. Karen has won numerous awards for her diabetes education experience, she has been interviewed on national television and radio, and reviewed in hundreds of newspapers, magazines and professional journals, and has been a keynote speaker at conferences and diabetes expos. Karen’s 3 books on diabetes management have more than 250,000 copies in print.