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| Diabetes for Dummies UK Edition | 
 enlarge | Authors: Sarah Jarvis, Alan L. Rubin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 207987
Media: Paperback
Edition: UK Edition
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0764570196
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9780764570193
ASIN: 0764570196
Publication Date: September 26, 2003
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Helpful guide for the newly diagnosed -- recommended April 15, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
My partner was recently diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and we needed to educate ourselves -- quickly -- about how to cope with the condition.
This is an excellent, easy to read guide, which has proved to be extremely useful for us. It is written by medical professionals but is in plain, accessible English which means you can answer a query quickly, and come back for more in-depth information later.
It covers both Type 1 and 2, and offers an overall guide to medication, exercise, diet and how to cope with it all. There are also plenty of case studies which are based on real people, so you relate to the information and how it is effective in a practical situation.
It is more detailed and informative than the Diabetes UK website, and much more balanced than the more personal guidebooks which we have also seen.
The information is broken up into useful chapters and bite-size chunks. Nothing difficult to handle, and the index makes finding a particular subject (testing glucose levels / hypoglcaemia / GI levels / complications / whatever) very easy.
As well as being useful for actual diabetic patients, this book is also brilliant for the family. It explains mood swings and depression, and how to help the person who is suffering.
It's a book about how to live well despite diabetes -- and has proved to be extremely useful, eductional, practical and uplifting.
It is only marked down by one star because the information stops too soon for us -- we could have done with more detailed medical chapters explaining the how and why of things. Our probliem is now that there's very little to bridge the gap between basic guides for the layman and full-blown medical textbooks!
A place to start December 17, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am training to become a nurse, I bought this book to help me with an exam on Type one diabetes. This will help people who read this book to get a basic understanding on Diabetes. It helped me a lot to go thought subjects such as ketoacidosis by explaining it simply where as most of my nursing text books go into depth and medical jargon.
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