Diabetes For Canadians For Dummies

Get the facts on treating diabetes successfully and living a full and active life As Canada's ultimate diabetes resource, this helpful guide returns with a new edition—thoroughly revised and updated with the latest guidelines from the Canadian Diabetes Association, along with new medical findings. Offering you reassuring guidance for putting together a state-of-the-art diabetes treatment program, this friendly-yet-informative book walks you through all the advances in monitoring glucose, the latest medications, ways to juggle diabetes with daily commitments, and how to develop a diet and exercise plan to stay healthy. Packed with helpful advice, Diabetes For Canadians For Dummies, Third Edition explores the newest data about the diagnosis and treatment of people with diabetes, including children and women during pregnancy. The author duo puts their years of diabetes expertise to use by deciphering information from recent studies that provide new insights into how diabetes affects the body and walks you through the latest drugs used to treat this manageable disease. Teaches you how to identify the symptoms that require urgent attention and how to subsequently treat the problem Reassures you of what to do during pregnancy to help ensure a healthy baby Shares advice for finding the right health care providers, from your family physician to your diabetes nurse educator to your dietician, and more Addresses concerns regarding driving with hypoglycemia Discusses the latest connection between the brain and diabetes and looks at new nutritional data from the latest version of Canada's Food Guide Diabetes For Canadians For Dummies, Third Edition features new nutritional data, facts on prediabetes, and advice for prevention tactics, all of which provide you with an arsenal of information that will help you manage your diabetes confidently and wisely.

Introduction 1 Part I: Dealing with the Diagnosis of Diabetes 7 Chapter 1: Membership in a Club You Didn’t Ask to Join 9 Chapter 2: You and Your Blood Glucose 21 Chapter 3: Discovering the Cause of Your Diabetes 29 Chapter 4: Looking at the Different Types of Diabetes 39 Part II: How Diabetes Can Affect Your Body 59 Chapter 5: Handling Low and High Blood Glucose Emergencies 61 Chapter 6: As Time Goes By: Handling Long-Term Complications 83 Chapter 7: Diabetes and Pregnancy 121 Part III: Rule Your Diabetes: Don’t Let It Rule You 143 Chapter 8: Meet Your Diabetes Team 145 Chapter 9: Monitoring and Understanding Your Blood Glucose Levels 157 Chapter 10: You Are What You Eat: Staying Healthy with Good Nutrition 201 Chapter 11: Exercising Your Way to Good Health 225 Chapter 12: Controlling Your Blood Glucose with Non-insulin Antihyperglycemic Medications and Alternative Therapies 237 Chapter 13: Using Insulin Effectively 259 Part IV: Particular Patients and Special Circumstances 293 Chapter 14: Your Child Has Diabetes 295 Chapter 15: Diabetes in Special Groups: The Elderly and Aboriginal Populations 313 Chapter 16: Special Circumstances: Employment, Insurance, Safe Driving, and Preparing for Disaster 323 Part V: The Part of Tens 335 Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Stay Healthy and Avoid Complications 337 Chapter 18: Ten Frequently Asked Questions about Diabetes 345 Part VI: Appendixes 353 Appendix A: The Food Group System 355 Appendix B: Straight Goods on a Tangled Web: Diabetes Websites Worth Visiting 367 Appendix C: Glossary 371 Index 381