This book introduces readers to how type 1 diabetes affects the body, explores its symptoms, and explains how to treat it. A valuable resource for readers learning to deal with type 1 diabetes, or who have loved ones with diabetes.

"Provides basic consumer health information about diagnosis, treatment, and management of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, along with facts about lifestyle issues and preventing complications. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--Provided by publisher.

A daily three-meal plan for diabetic sufferers based on proven scientific methods to lower blood sugar, and removing the stress of the daily planning of healthy and tasty meals.

"Introduces readers to diabetes, including causes, symptoms, treatments, and the personal experience"--

"Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes was treated almost exclusively through diet, from subsistence on meat, to reliance on fats, to repeated fasting and near-starvation regimens. After two centuries of conflicting medical advice, most authorities today believe that those with diabetes can have the same dietary freedom enjoyed by the rest of us, leaving the job of controlling their disease to insulin therapy and other blood-sugar-lowering medications....