Boiling Energy or American Medical Association Guide to Living with Diabetes

Boiling Energy: Community Healing among the Kalahari Kung

Author: Richard Katz

This account of the ancient healing dances practiced by the Kung people of southern Africa's Kalahari Desert includes vivid eyewitness descriptions of night-long healing dances and interviews with Kung Healers.

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American Medical Association Guide to Living with Diabetes: Preventing and Treating Type 2 Diabetes - Essential Information You and Your Family Need to Know

Author: American Medical Association

More than 3 million american medical association books sold

From america's most trusted health authority, the ultimate guide to understanding, preventing, and managing type 2 diabetes

If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes or may be at risk of developing the disease, you or your loved one can still look forward to a long, healthy, active life. The leading group of medical experts in the United States presents the American Medical Association Guide to Living with Diabetes, an easy-to-understand self-care reference to help prevent or successfully manage this serious disorder.

Authoritative and up-to-date, this comprehensive resource explains what type 2 diabetes is, describes its risk factors, and offers practical strategies for preventing it, primarily by losing weight, improving your diet, and reaching and maintaining a healthy weight. Even if you are overweight, you can lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Did you know that losing as little as 7 to 10 percent of your weight will cut your risk of getting diabetes in half? If you weigh 200 pounds, a weight loss of just 14 to 20 pounds reaps huge health benefits. This book gives you the inspiration you need to get on the road to improving your health and fitness while guiding you along the way.

If you are living with diabetes, this book offers in-depth explanations of the recommended lifestyle changes that can help you manage the disease and stresses the importance of rigorous testing and control of your blood sugar to avoid complications. You will learn about the available medications for treating diabetes and about alternative andcomplementary therapies. The book is complete with sections on gestational diabetes and the increasing threat that type 2 diabetes poses to at-risk children. This essential guidebook gives you and your family the tools you need to prevent or effectively manage type 2 diabetes, take control of your health, and live well.

Table of Contents:

Introduction.

PART ONE: Type 2 Diabetes: A Modern Epidemic.

1. What Is Diabetes?

2. Are You at Risk?

PART TWO: Preventing Type 2 Diabetes.

3. Maintaining a Healthy Weight.

4. Nutrition Basics for Staying Healthy.

5. Exercise Your Way to Better Health.

PART THREE: Diagnosing and Treating Type 2 Diabetes.

6. How Do You Know If You Have Diabetes?

7. Reaching a Healthy Weight.

8. Eating a Healthy Diet.

9. Your Exercise Regimen.

10. Medication and Blood Sugar Testing.

11. Experimental Treatments and Special Situations.

PART FOUR: Complications of Diabetes.

12. Acute Complications.

13. Chronic Complications.

PART FIVE: Diabetes in Children.

14. Type 2 Diabetes in Children.

PART SIX: Diabetes during Pregnancy.

15. Gestational Diabetes.

Glossary.

Index.