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Improving glycemic, lipid, and blood pressure outcomes is the essence of diabetes care. Maintaining consistently positive results is an ongoing challenge for every healthcare professional. After years of clinical practice, Mayer Davidson, MD, has developed a series of algorithmic techniques that can increase positive results. Based on ADA's Standards of Care, this book offers detailed treatment algorithms that have been shown to be clinically effective in improving outcomes in people with diabet...

From the team that created The New York Times bestselling Fix-It and Forget-It series, comes hundreds of down-home, tested recipes for slower cooker, stove-top, and oven. Meal planning can be tough when you or someone in your family has diabetes. Welcome Home Diabetic Cookbook is here to help! Here are 450 easy-to-prepare recipes that you can mix and match to make your breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, and desserts a snap! You want to put a delicious meal on the table for your family withou...

This cookbook was specifically developed for parents of children with diabetes, providing delicious and nutritious kid-friendly food that the whole family can enjoy. The 125 recipes are tasty and fun and deliver the supervised diet that children with diabetes require without ever making them feel deprived or left out. Each recipes has the carbohydrate, protein and fat listed allowing parents (and their kids who have Type 1 diabetes) to choose foods that fit into a healthy meal plan that assures...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the social and spatial experiences of people with dwarfism, an impairment that results in a person being no taller than 4' 10". This book engages with the concept that dwarfism’s most prominent feature – body size and shape – can form the basis of social discrimination and disadvantages within society. By ignoring body size as a disability, it is hard to see the resulting disabling consequences of the built environment. Using a mixed-methods approach...

Many aspects of reproduction are controlled by the brain. For example, ovulation, birth and lactation are dependent upon signals from the brain directed at the endocrine system. The brain is also responsible for ensuring that the animal behaves in a way appropriate for these changing reproductive states. The nerve cells responsible for controlling the endocrine system and sexual behaviour receive much information about the internal and external environment. The details of how this information is...

Making delicious meals doesn't have to be complicated, time-consuming, or expensive. You can create satisfying dishes using just four ingredients, or even less! Make the most of your time and money. You'll be amazed at how much you can prepare with just a few simple ingredients. With over 150 quick, easy-to-prepare recipes, The 4-Ingredient Diabetes Cookbook has recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and everything in between.

Designed for One provides recipes for single servings of flavorful, diabetes-friendly meals. Now you can enjoy a flavorful and diabetes-friendly dinner that's designed just for you! Hughes shows you how to prepare a delicious meal without a ton of leftovers. Many of the recipes allow you to treat yourself to single servings of flavorful meals, but Hughes includes a "two-for-one" chapter lets you use the leftovers from the recipe as a base for a brand new dinner.

Since diabetes cannot be cured, the only way to deal with it is to learn to control it. With this clear objective in view, the book offers a complete guide on the ways and means to go about it. Beginning from the structure and functions of different organs of the digestive system, the types of diabetes, its causes and symptoms, it goes on to explain in detail the complications it can cause, the diagnosis and tests involved in detection, the calorie-reckoner of different food items and the recomm...

How hormonal signals in one small structure of the brain—the hypothalamus—govern our physiology and behavior.As human beings, we prefer to think of ourselves as reasonable. But how much of what we do is really governed by reason? In this book, Gareth Leng considers the extent to which one small structure of the neuroendocrine brain—the hypothalamus—influences what we do, how we love, and who we are. The hypothalamus contains a large variety of neurons. These communicate not only through neurotr...

This new and completely revised third edition is a concise, systematic and highly practical guide to the care of patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Clinically and problem-based, it covers emergency, inpatient and ambulatory diabetes care in the hospital and community, focusing particularly on difficult, grey and contentious areas of management, and seeks to guide advanced practitioners through problems that are not always emphasised. Up to date clinical trial results have been incorporat...

Focusing on prevention rather than treatment, Obesity: Dietary and Developmental Influences reviews and evaluates the determinants of obesity. The book uses evidence-based research as a basis to define foods and dietary behaviors that should be supported and encouraged as well as those that should be discouraged. This comprehensive review represents a critical step forward in the quest to identify actionable strategies to prevent obesity. The book describes the potential role of 26 different di...