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Staying Healthy with Diabetes Series

Joslin -- the leading diabetes expert for over 100 years -- is always the first source for the most current information regarding diabetes management. And now Joslin would like to offer you its most recently published books in diabetes management, Staying Healthy with Diabetes—Weight and Wellness, Staying Healthy with Diabetes—Nutrition and Meal Planning and Staying Healthy with Diabetes—Physical Activity and Fitness. These three books in the Staying Healthy with Diabetes Series offer the latest information and techniques on managing your weight, the importance of using a meal plan to fit your life style and the benefits of exercise to maintain good health while living with diabetes.

Staying Healthy with Diabetes--Weight and Wellness

The scientific jury is in and the verdict is clear: weight loss is directly related to improved diabetes control.

Weight management goals are different for everyone and weight loss presents a special challenge for people with diabetes. Based on the nutrition guidelines developed by Joslin Diabetes Center and the lessons learned from Joslin’s Why WAIT! Program, Staying Healthy with Diabetes -- Weight and Wellness offers tools and support strategies for your weight management program.

Weight and Wellness explains how to determine a healthy weight for you, meal planning, and how to overcome barriers to beginning a weight management program. Special issues such as meal replacements, popular diets, weight loss medications and surgery, and weight loss for children and adolescents are also covered.

In addition, through clear, concise discussions of the importance of such issues as: metabolism, glycemic index, glycemic load, reading nutrition labels and BMI/Waist circumference, this book will give you the knowledge you need to help you make life style choices which are right for you.

Staying Healthy with Diabetes -- Nutrition & Meal Planning

Managing your diabetes is all about making choices -- and choosing what foods you will eat is one of the most important choices. Staying Healthy with Diabetes -- Nutrition & Meal Planning will help you understand which foods you are currently eating may help keep your blood glucose levels as close to your target range as possible. It will explain which foods you may need to eat more of -- or perhaps less of if they are negatively affecting your body weight, blood cholesterol or blood glucose levels. You'll also find discussion of the glycemic index, eating out, alcohol, vitamins, and grocery shopping tips, as well as Joslin's Food Lists -- 32 pages which provide serving sizes (each containing 15 grams of carb) for carbs (breads, cereals, vegetables, cookies, crackers, fruit, favorite breakfast items and deserts); proteins (meats, cheeses, eggs); fats; "free" foods; combination foods; fast foods and vegetarian foods. This book was developed and written by Joslin Diabetes Center and supported in part by an unrestricted educational grant from Novartis Nutrition Corporation.

Staying Healthy with Diabetes--Physical Activity and Fitness

Physical activity is good for everyone. But it is especially important for a person with diabetes because it improves the body's ability to handle glucose.

This book in Joslin's Staying Healthy with Diabetes Series explains how physical activity can lower your blood glucose by improving your body's ability to use both glucose and insulin. It also provides information about weight loss, managing highs and lows during physical activity, exercising when you have other physical problems and how to avoid the road blocks to fitness.

There are countless advantages that physical activity and fitness have to offer. For example:

* It helps tone and strengthen muscles and helps heart and lungs work more efficiently, which means more energy!

* Physical activity is especially beneficial for one with diabetes because it lowers blood glucose levels.

* People who take diabetes pills often find they need less medication as they perform regular physical activity. The same is true for people who take insulin; the dose may need to be adjusted to prevent low blood glucose.

* Physical activity helps control your weight and tone your muscles and is essential for maintaining weight loss.

* Regular physical activity also helps prevent type 2 diabetes.

Physical Activity & Fitness will tell you all you need to know about how to get the physical activity you need in a way that’s easiest and safest for you. Written by exercise physiologist, Cathy Mullooly, MS, RCEP, CDE and the Staff of Joslin, it explains how activity helps manage diabetes, its effect on weight loss, first steps to fitness, managing low and high blood glucose during activity, the best type of activity or activities for you (aerobic? resistance? stretching?) and exercising when you have other physical problems. Physical Activity & Fitness offers a realistic approach to fitness, lays to rest some common myths about diabetes and exercise and provides ways to avoid the road blocks to being active.

Item#: JDC 275

Price: $33.00

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