Diabetes Self-Defense® Weekly Journal and Reference Manual-The Ultimate Weapon In the War Against Diabetes.
If you believe that Knowledge is Power, then you need Diabetes Self-Defense® 2008!
Written by Diabetics for Diabetics, Diabetes Self-Defense® Weekly Journal and Reference Manual provides a workbook for people with diabetes or pre-diabetes. Created in a classic, wire-bound notebook style for convenience and portability, this all-in-one diabetes notebook is designed to help you become an expert in Diabetes Self-Defense® and features:
- 52 Easy-To-Read weekly educational topics on the left side of the notebook -- to help you better understand the basics of diabetes and how to gain better control. These cover critical topics like Diabetes and Blood Pressure, Diabetes and Cholesterol, and more to help you learn about our H.E.A.R.T.S. strategy. As you track your key medical measurements each week, you will be able to read an insightful article to help you arm yourself in the War Against Diabetes. You no longer need to carry around all those little brochures with diabetes information -- brochures that often get misplaced or lost.
- 52 Easy-To-Use weekly tracking forms on the right side of the notebook -- to help you easily track your daily and weekly blood sugar, blood pressure, medications, exercise, and any illnesses -- all on one convenient form for you and your diabetes health care team. Any member of your diabetes healthcare team will be able to scan several months worth of data in only a few minutes. No more need for the blood sugar booklets that are hard to keep up with and easy to lose.
- An Introduction to Diabetes That’s Easy-To-Understand, written and edited by someone who has had insulin-dependent diabetes for over seventeen years with no complications. This introduction is designed to highlight the facts about diabetes, its underlying causes, its serious complications and its modern day treatments, incorporating both traditional and alternative medicine.
- Medically Sound Information reviewed by Boris Draznin, M.D., Ph.D., and and Kevin Tong, M.D. Dr. Draznin is a nationally-recognized diabetes researcher by the American Diabetes Association, and Dr. Tong is a Denver-based endocrinologist, Board-Certified in Diabetes, Internal Medicine, Metabolism, and Endocrinology. Diabetes Self-Defense® provides the latest and greatest scientific and practice-based information for gaining better control.
- Easy-To-Maintain Medical Record Charts in the Appendix are forms for easy and convenient annual record keeping that include charts and checklists for your medical exams, medications, medical insurance, and diabetes resources. Whenever your doctor, dentist, nutritionist, or nurse has a question about your latest exam results, you have it all in one place!
This book is written for all people living with diabetes or pre-diabetes to live the healthiest, happiest, and longest lives possible. For those with diabetes, it is designed to provide the proven yet simple “rules and tools” for effective diabetes management and control. For those of you with pre-diabetes, it provides the scientific knowledge — in plain English — that you need to help delay or entirely prevent the onset of full-blown diabetes.
Having diabetes no longer means a shortened life of deprivation, denial, and depression, though it still can if it is left uncontrolled. Being a diabetic person doesn’t mean you’re an alien from the planet DiaBeta; to the contrary, people with diabetes can and should enjoy almost all foods and activities that their non-diabetic friends enjoy with few exceptions. There is no such thing as “diabetic diet.” What is good and healthy for you is also good for your friends.
Make no mistake — diabetes is a very serious disease, and you must take it very seriously in all that you do, observing certain rules and guidelines. But the guidelines are not oppressive, nor are they necessarily difficult, despite the many myths that surround diabetes. The Diabetes Prevention Program (see p.10) is scientific proof that a sound nutrition and exercise program can help prevent or alleviate the many complications of uncontrolled diabetes.
"Diabetes is a disease that, perhaps more than any other, depends much more on the patient than on the doctor." David Mendosa, A Writer On the Web