Foreword by Frank Vinicor, MD, MPH
Preface to the Newly Revised and Updated Edition
My Life with Diabetes: Beyond Sixty-Five Years and Counting
Before and After: Fourteen Patients Share Their Experiences
2. Tests: Baseline Measures of Your Disease and Risk Profile
3. Your Diabetic Tool Kit: Supplies You Will Need and Where to Get Them
4. How and When to Measure Blood Sugar
5. Recording Blood Sugar Data: Using the Glucograf III Data Sheet
6. Strange Biology: Phenomena Peculiar to Diabetes That Can Affect Blood Sugar
8. Establishing a Treatment Plan: The Basic Treatment Plans and How We Structure Them
9. The Basic Food Groups: Or Much of What You’ve Been Taught About Diet Is Probably Wrong
10. Diet Guidelines Essential to the Treatment of All Diabetics
11. Creating a Customized Meal Plan
12. Weight Loss—If You’re Overweight
14. Using Exercise to Enhance Insulin Sensitivity and Slow Aging
15. Oral Insulin-Sensitizing Agents, Insulin-Mimetic Agents, and Other Options
16. Insulin: The Basics of Self-Injection
17. Important Information About Various Insulins
19. Intensive Insulin Regimens
20. How to Prevent and Correct Low Blood Sugars
21. How to Cope with Dehydration, Dehydrating Illness, and Infection
22. Delayed Stomach-Emptying: Gastroparesis
23. Routine Follow-up Visits to Your Physician
24. What You Can Expect from Virtually Normal Blood Sugars
PART THREE
Your Diabetic Cookbook
25. Recipes for Low-Carbohydrate Meals
Appendix C: Drugs That Can Affect Blood Glucose Levels
Appendix D: Foot Care for Diabetics