50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life: And the 50 Diabetes Truths That Can Save It | Date: 28 April 2011, 07:41
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50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life: And the 50 Diabetes Truths That Can Save It
By Riva Greenberg
* Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
* Number Of Pages: 336
* Publication Date: 2009-07-13
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0738213209
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780738213200
Product Description:
Patient-expert Riva Greenberg's book is an essential guide for the more than 24 million Americans with diabetes and the more than 57 million with prediabetes. 50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life puts the “power of truth” directly into patients’ hands, dispelling the 50 most common myths that tend to rule their lives, such as: “You have to be fat to get diabetes,” “Eating too many sweets causes diabetes,” “Insulin shots are painful,” and “Type 2 diabetes is not as serious as Type 1.” With recommendations from top experts and engaging patient stories, 50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life explains the crucial information everyone managing this chronic illness needs to know to live a long, healthy life with diabetes.
Summary: Great approach, solid information
Rating: 4
By starting with what people think they know about diabetes and setting the record straight, Riva Greenberg has found a way to make diabetes education relevant and meaningful. By sprinkling her lessons with personal anecdotes and stories about real people, she humanizes the information and makes it real. And by providing up-to-date and accurate medical facts to a wide audience, she may well be saving lives. I recommend this book for all people with diabetes and for those who care about them.
Summary: A must-read diabetes book!
Rating: 5
As a RN, CDE who has diabetes this an excellent, informative and easy to read book. I would recommend it for all people with diabetes, their friends/family and anyone who wants to know the Truths about diabetes. Healthcare professionals will find this book enlightening as it is written by a very well controlled patient. Be prepared to be educated, energized and empowered to live well with diabetes! And Yes! You can eat ice-cream (see Myth #28).
Summary: A Unique Book For All People With Diabetes
Rating: 5
As a physician and a patient with diabetes, I find this book a unique discussion of diabetes. The author has melded medical information with her experiences and thoughts as a patient along with observations of many people with diabetes. The result is an informational and motivational combination that people with diabetes, as well as their friends and relatives, will find valuable in understanding this complex disease. The benefits and methods of controlling blood sugar will be apparent.
Summary: 50 is not enough....We need more
Rating: 5
I received my copy from Amazon about three months ago. I did not look at it for several weeks then started reading it on an airplane. That made the trip to San Diego seem to be the fastest ever. First, I could not pickup your book and now I cannot put it down. I am starting the third reading and each time I am learning more. This needs to be required reading for those of us who are living with our diabetes and those that support people with diabetes (my honorary type 3s)
Most importantly, the information is significant and useful in helping us make our choices on how to control diabetes. I hope that you are not going to stop at 50 myths but continue on to 100 myths and even more. Your literary style peeks our interest, is tutorial without being overbearingly academic and reading it is a pleasant experience. I may be feeling sorry for those who do not have diabetes and are unable to be touched and moved by this book.
More, please.....................!
Summary: Kills every single one of the most common myths about diabetes
Rating: 5
One by one, Riva Greenberg tears down 50 of the top myths that typically accompany diabetes. From "Type 2 diabetes is not as serious as type 1" to "People with diabetes can't eat sugar." From "Women with diabetes shouldn't get pregnant" to "If my doctor says it's time for me to take insulin, I'm a failure". The author hits every single myth on the head, with the expert support of many of the who's who of the diabetes medical establishment (names in the list include Dr. Jovanovic, Dr. Kaufman, Dr. Polonsky and several more).
The book groups myths in six groups: common ones, medical myths, food myths, body fitness myths, psych myths and practical & practices myths. Each myth is followed by the truth behind it, a detailed discussion about why the myth is not true and a sidebar titled "Tips to Make You Tops" which gives you practical elements you can apply to help kill the myth in your own life.
Along with The Real-Life Guide to Diabetes this is one of the great practical books about living with diabetes I have read in quite a while.
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