Complementary Health and Diabetes—A Focus on Dietary Supplements
by Laura Shane-McWhorter
The definitive guide to dietary supplements and diabetes for health care professionals. Nearly 27 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes and a quarter of them report that they have used complementary and alternative medicines (now called complementary health approaches by the National Institutes of Health) to treat their diabetes or for general wellness. In this reality, clinicians need to understand potential complications, know the research, and be prepared to guide their patients an...
Meeting the American Diabetes Association Standards of Care
by Mayer B Davidson
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...
American Diabetes Association Guide to Insulin and Type 2 Diabetes
by Marie McCarren
Insulin is the most powerful tool available for managing diabetes. It can do the job when pills, exercise, and a careful diet are no longer enough. You might be worried that shots will hurt or that figuring out doses is hard. The American Diabetes Association Guide to Insulin and Type 2 Diabetes gives complete information, and you'll hear from the experts - people with type 2 diabetes who use insulin. Their advice, support, and practical tips will help you fit insulin into your lifestyle.
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 volume provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the routine and special toxicologic assessments performed on pharmaceutical agents, chemicals, pesticides and consumer products. Toxicity testing procedures will be described emphasizing experimental design considerations (dose and species selection, toxicokinetic criteria) as well as regulatory guidelines and impacts of global harmonization efforts. The volume also provides insights into the risk assessment process in terms of eva...
Current concepts on mechanisms mediating chemically induced nephrotoxicity are rapidly evolving. This volume is focused on capturing this rapidly growing field by providing a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of renal pathophysiology and toxicology, written by internationally recognized experts in the field. The first section of this volume is designed to provide the reader with the needed background information; including an overview of clinical nephrotoxicity, the anatomy and physiology o...
This volume deals with the enzymatic processes involved in the biotransformation of toxic and potentially toxic chemicals. The first section provides introductory material on general aspects of history, regulation, mechanism, inhibition, and stimulation of the enzymes in this group. The bulk of the volume is comprised of chapters dealing with the current status of enzymes involved in oxidation, reduction, hydrolysis, and conjugation of xenobiotic chemicals. Each chapter is organized to cover the...
Molecular Genetics of Sex Determination
In this era of accelerated discovery and prolific output, Molecular Genetics of Sex Determination keeps readers abreast of this fields fast-moving biology. Its chapters were completed by experts in eacharea only months before publication. The text is organized into two parts. First, it reviews the basic biology of sex determination and summarizes ground-breaking work in mouse, marsupial, and Drosophila systems. Second, it covers current human genetics, clinical studies, and the syndromes of abno...
Steroid Analysis
The second edition of this book has drawn heavily on the first edition but a huge amount of research on steroid analysis has been published over the last 15 years. As a result, the Editors decided to let the first edition of this book stand on its own and direct readers interested in pre-1995 steroid analysis to it, simply because the post-1995 research can on its own fill the second edition. We have tried to keep a balance but equally have allowed authors of each chapter a significant degree of...
Dwarfism, Spatiality and Disabling Experiences (Interdisciplinary Disability Studies)
by Erin Pritchard
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...
Brain Opioid Systems in Reproduction
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.
Insulin Resistance and Insulin Resistance Syndrome
Type II diabetes has developed into a global epidemic, with nearly 20 type II patients for every type I individual. Preceding the onset of type II diabetes is a prolonged episode of insulin resistance featuring a host of detrimental symptoms. This period comprises a disease referred to as Insulin Resistance Syndrome or Metabolic Syndrome. Insulin Resistance and Insulin Resistance Syndrome deals with the cellular and whole body pathogenic mechanisms and phenotypic expressions in various models o...
Traditional Medicines for Modern Times (Traditional Herbal Medicines for Modern Times)
The increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus world-wide is an issue of major socio-economic concern. Scientific interest in plant-derived medicine is steadily rising, yet there is often a wide disparity in the caliber of information available. A detailed compilation of scientific information from across the globe, Traditional Medicines for Modern Times: Antidiabetic Plants highlights the potential role of dietary and medicinal plant materials in the prevention, treatment, and control of diabet...