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Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your blood glucose, also called blood sugar, is too high. Blood glucose is the main source of energy and comes from the food you eat. Insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas, helps glucose from food get into your cells to be used for energy. Sometimes, your body doesn't make enough - or any — insulin or doesn't use insulin well. Glucose then stays in your blood and doesn't reach your cells. Overtime, having...
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New Hope for Diabetics
Take charge of your health, and live a longer, healthier life
Are you suffering from diabetes? In this concise, easy-to-read book, you'll discover a wealth of information to help you win your battle with high blood sugar. The complications of diabetes are many and serious, but there are biblical guidelines and recent medical findings that will help you prevent or reverse its long-term effects. Dr. Colbert has taken the confusion...
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The definitive guide to eating well and staying healthy with diabetes
International Diabetes Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
From the American Dietetic Association comes this authoritative guide to choosing foods to control your blood sugar and maintain an active, healthy lifestyle. It provides the must-know basics of daily diabetes care-from designing a food plan and preventing low blood glucose levels to losing weight and carbohydrate counting-so...
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I was approaching my 37th birthday, and slowly killing myself. At just under five foot eight, I weighed almost 400lbs and was a "Bad Diabetic," as my elderly mother declares, as if there were any other kind. When I was diagnosed in 1988, Diabetes education was all but absent from medicine and Diabetes was not the national epidemic it is today. I did little to address the disease and eventually was taking more than the maximum doses of oral anti-diabetic...
65) Cómo He Controlado Mi Salud De La Mira Del Asesino Silencioso La Nueva Epidemia Mundial, Conocida
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Gracias le doy a mi Dios y a nuestro señor Jesucristo por poner mi corazón al escribir este libro, el cual espero que ayude a todos mis hermanos que están en Cristo, alrededor del mundo, los cuales padecen de diabetes o tienen diabetes. Si no sabías, como yo no lo sabía, en la década de los ochenta, en el mundo había 109 millones de personas con diabetes. Cuando salió la revista que publicaba estos números el 13 de junio del 2017, ya había...
66) Breaking the Chains of Diabetes. A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding And Managing Diabetes Nat
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"Breaking the Chains of Diabetes" is a comprehensive guide that empowers readers to take control of their health and well-being in the face of diabetes. This enlightening book covers essential topics such as the types of diabetes (Type 1, Type 2, Gestational Diabetes, and Pre-Diabetes), the causes of diabetes (including genetics and lifestyle factors), common symptoms like Polydipsia, Polyuria, and Polyphagia, and the various methods of diagnosing...
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From the world-renowned Joslin Diabetes Center and the coauthor of the million-copy seller, The Joslin Diabetes Manual, this book is based on the results of the ten-year Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) from the National Institutes of Health-which proved that intensive control, opposed to standard methods, greatly reduces the effects of diabetes and the risk of long-term complications.
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An up-beat, take-charge daily health care manual for the diabetic
Dr. Juliano's book pulls no punches about the seriousness of diabetes; he has been blind for fifteen years due to his disease and he draws on his own experience to offer hard-won day-to-day advice. He discusses insulin and other medications and stresses the importance of self-home blood-glucose monitoring, exercise, and good nutrition. He is honest about possible long-term complications...
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Take Charge...It's Easy!
Diabetes has reached near-epidemic proportions in America. If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with it, you need to keep blood sugar in normal ranges and avoid serious complications. Bu,t how can you help control diabetes and not let it control you?
This handy guide offers step-by-step pointers to not only handle diabetes and keep it from getting worse-but also to reverse the harmful effects of the disease. It...
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Just like thousands of people around the world, you will experience weight loss, better cholesterol quality, better blood sugar control, lowered risk of heart disease, reversal of diabetes and many other major illnesses when you follow this medically proven method of eating delicious and satisfying food to regain health.
The Asian Low Carb Secret will teach you which foods to eat that will help you:
• Lose weight quickly and permanently.
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72) Sugar Detox
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Did you know that sugar is doing the same damage to your body that alcohol would if you drank it every day of your life? Sugar is converted to fat in your body. Even worse, sugar is literally killing you by damaging your organs. This is because it is a toxin.
Listen to this book to learn how and why stopping your addiction to sugar will save your life! It was created for sugar addicts and for beginners who want more information on the damaging effects...
73) How to Prevent Diabetes - I Beat It and You Can, Too!: Get Inspired. Get Tested. Get Moving. Get Fit
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Dr. Woods has been on the front line in the fight against diabetes as a clinical nurse specialist for thousands of diabetic patients. It was this experience that triggered the realization that she herself was in danger of becoming a victim of the disease, whose devastating effects include heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure and loss of limbs. She had to lose weight, particularly because she had a family history of diabetes. Her book is a vivid...
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Controlling your diabetes is the key to preventing or slowing serious complications. The Essentials of Diabetes helps you fully understand what diabetes is, what you need to do to control it, and why control is so important. Easy-to-use facts and action steps, coupled with in-depth information on tests, medications, exercise and diet mean you'll have the knowledge you need to finally get your glucose levels to your goal range. You can also work more...
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This book tells the story of how my diabetic condition was discovered, my denial of the condition, then the work done to get my glucose level to levels that are close to normal. There is no magic solution to treating type 2 diabetes, but I hope the information that I gathered and applied to my own life may be helpful to everyone struggling with type 2 diabetes. There is no cure, and I will have this condition the rest of my life. However, type 2 diabetes...
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Take on diabetes through Diet and Nutrition-control, Yoga and Meditation & Exercise, Nature Cure, Acupressure, Ayurveda/Homeopathy/Herbal Cure and Allopathy. Since diabetes cannot be cured, the only way to deal with it is to learn how to control it. With this clear objective in view, the book offers a complete guide on the ways and means to go about it.
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Dr. Richard P. Jacoby's and Raquel Baldelomar's Sugar Crushand NOT the original book. Preview: Sugar Crush: How to Reduce Inflammation, Reverse Nerve Damage, and Reclaim Good Health is Dr. Richard P. Jacoby's treatise against sugar. Sugar is the direct cause of many common health ailments including the obesity and diabetes epidemics in the United States. Sugar Crush outlines the damage that sugar inflicts on the...
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Using insulin correctly helps you feel your best and keeps complications at bay, so if you use insulin, you owe it to yourself to learn all you can about this life-saving part of your medication regime. It's not enough to "set it and forget it." Created for those with type 1 and insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes, this book gives you simple, no-nonsense facts and tips you need to know about using insulin. Topics include types of insulin and how they...
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In 1900, only two percent of meals in America were eaten outside the home; now it is over fifty percent. Hyman calls for readers to take back their health by taking back their kitchens. The major culprit of diabetes, obesity and heart disease is insulin imbalance. Following Hyman's program for rebalancing insulin and blood sugar levels, this cookbook presents delectable recipes that are free of allergens and harmful inflammatory ingredients.
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