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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| Conventions Used in this Book | |
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| What You Don't Have to Read | |
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| Foolish Assumptions | |
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| Icons Used in This Book | |
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| Dealing With the Onset of Diabetes | |
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| Dealing with Diabetes | |
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| You Are Not Alone | |
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| Dealing with the Diagnosis of Diabetes | |
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| Maintaining a High Quality of Life | |
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| It's the Glucose | |
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| Recognizing Diabetes | |
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| Discovering Ways to Treat Diabetes | |
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| Typical Patient Stories | |
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| What Type of Diabetes Do You Have? | |
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| Getting to Know Your Pancreas | |
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| You Have Type 1 Diabetes | |
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| You Have Type 2 Diabetes | |
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| You Have Gestational Diabetes | |
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| Could You Have Another Type of Diabetes? | |
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| How Diabetes Affects Your Body | |
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| Battling Short-Term Complications | |
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| Solving Short-Term Complications | |
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| Understanding Hypoglycemia | |
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| Combating Ketoacidosis | |
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| Managing the Hyperosmolar Syndrome | |
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| Preventing Long-Term Complications | |
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| How Long-Term Complications Develop | |
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| Kidney Disease | |
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| Eye Disease | |
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| Nerve Disease, or Neuropathy | |
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| Heart Disease | |
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| Diabetic Blood Vessel Disease Away from the Heart | |
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| Diabetic Foot Disease | |
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| Skin Disease in Diabetes | |
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| Diabetes, Sexual Function, and Pregnancy | |
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| When the Male Can't Get an Erection | |
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| Female Sexual Problems | |
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| Pregnancy and Diabetes | |
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| Managing Diabetes: The "Thriving with Diabetes" Lifestyle Plan | |
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| Glucose Monitoring and Other Tests | |
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| Testing, Testing: Tests You Need to Stay Healthy | |
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| Monitoring Your Blood Glucose: It's a Must | |
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| Choosing a Blood Glucose Meter | |
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| Tracking Your Glucose over Time with the Hemoglobin A1c | |
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| Testing for Kidney Damage: Microalbuminuria | |
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| Checking for Eye Problems | |
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| Examining Your Feet | |
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| Tracking Cholesterol and Other Fats | |
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| Measuring Blood Pressure | |
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| Checking Your Weight | |
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| Testing for Ketones | |
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| Diabetes Diet Plan | |
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| Consider Total Calories First | |
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| Getting Enough Vitamins, Minerals, and Water | |
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| Adding Alcohol | |
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| Substituting Sweeteners (Caloric and Artificial) | |
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| Special Nutritional Considerations for People with Type 1 Diabetes | |
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| Special Nutritional Considerations for People with Type 2 Diabetes | |
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| Reducing Your Weight | |
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| Coping with Eating Disorders and Diabetes | |
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| Keeping It Moving: Exercise Plan | |
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| Getting Off the Couch: Why Exercise Is Important | |
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| Exercising When You Have Diabetes | |
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| Determining How Much Exercise You Can and Should Do | |
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| Is Golf a Sport? Choosing Your Activity | |
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| Lifting Weights | |
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| Medications: What You Should Know | |
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| Taking Drugs by Mouth: Oral Agents | |
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| Insulin | |
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| Avoiding Drug Interactions | |
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| Acquiring Financial Assistance for Medications | |
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| Diabetes Is Your Show | |
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| You Are the Author, the Producer, the Director, and the Star | |
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| The Primary Physician -- Your Assistant Director | |
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| The Diabetologist or Endocrinologist -- Your Technical Consultant | |
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| The Eye Doctor -- Your Lighting Designer | |
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| The Foot Doctor -- Your Dance Instructor | |
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| The Dietician -- Your Food Services Provider | |
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| The Diabetes Educator -- Your Researcher | |
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| The Pharmacist -- Your Usher | |
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| The Mental Health Worker -- Your Supporting Actor | |
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| Your Family and Friends -- Your Captivated and Caring Audience | |
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| Putting Your Knowledge to Work for You | |
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| Developing Positive Thinking | |
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| Monitoring and Testing | |
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| Using Medications | |
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| Following a Diet | |
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| Exercising | |
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| Using Other Expertise | |
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| Special Considerations for Living with Diabetes | |
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| Your Child Has Diabetes | |
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| Your Baby or Preschooler Has Diabetes | |
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| Your Primary School Child Has Diabetes | |
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| Your Adolescent Has Diabetes | |
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| Your Young Adult Child Has Diabetes | |
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| Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in Children | |
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| Sick Day Solutions | |
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| The Extra Value of Team Care | |
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| Diabetes and the Elderly | |
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| Diagnosing Diabetes in the Elderly | |
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| Evaluating Intellectual Functioning | |
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| Preparing a Proper Diet | |
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| Dealing with Eye Problems | |
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| Coping with Urinary and Sexual Problems | |
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| Considering Treatment | |
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| Understanding the New Medicare Law | |
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| Occupational and Insurance Problems | |
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| Where They Won't Hire You | |
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| The Law Is On Your Side | |
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| You and the Medical Insurance System | |
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| Changing or Losing a Job | |
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| Life Insurance | |
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| What's New in Diabetes Care | |
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| Choosing from the New Monitoring Devices | |
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| New Oral Agents | |
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| Improving Insulin Delivery | |
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| Developing a New Form of Insulin | |
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| Testing in New Ways | |
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| Transplanting of the Pancreas or Insulin-Producing Cells | |
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| What Doesn't Work When You're Treating Diabetes | |
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| How to Tell What Will Work for You | |
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| Drugs that Don't Work | |
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| Diets that Don't Work | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Ten Ways to Prevent or Reverse the Effects of Diabetes | |
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| Major Monitoring | |
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| Devout Dieting | |
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| Tenacious Testing | |
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| Enthusiastic Exercise | |
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| Lifelong Learning | |
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| Meticulous Medicating | |
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| Appropriate Attitude | |
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| Preventive Planning | |
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| Fastidious Footcare | |
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| Essential Eyecare | |
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| Ten Myths about Diabetes That You Can Forget | |
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| Perfect Treatment Yields Perfect Glucoses | |
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| Eating a Piece of Cake Can Kill You | |
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| Unorthodox Methods Can Cure Diabetes | |
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| Diabetes Ends Spontaneity | |
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| Hypoglycemia Kills Brain Cells | |
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| Needing Insulin Means You're Doomed | |
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| People with Diabetes Shouldn't Exercise | |
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| You Can't Get Life and Health Insurance | |
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| Most Diabetes Is Inherited | |
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| Diabetes Wrecks Your Sense of Humor | |
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| Ten Ways to Get Others to Help You | |
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| Teach Hypoglycemia to Significant Others | |
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| Follow the Standards of Care | |
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| Find an Exercise Partner | |
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| Use Your Foot Doctor | |
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| Avoid Temptation | |
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| Expand Your Education | |
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| Enjoy Your Favorite Foods | |
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| Find out about the Latest and Greatest | |
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| Understand Your Medications | |
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| Share This Book | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Mini-Cookbook | |
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| Aqua | |
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| Border Grill | |
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| Charlie Trotter's | |
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| Fringale | |
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| Gaylord India Restaurant | |
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| Greens | |
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| Harbor Village | |
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| Il Fornaio | |
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| Windows on the World | |
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| Exchange Lists | |
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| Listing the Foods | |
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| Using Exchanges to Create a Diet | |
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| Dr. W.W. Web | |
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| My Web Site | |
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| General Sites | |
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| Sites of Companies That Make Diabetes Products | |
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| Diabetic Athletes Organization | |
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| Government Web Sites | |
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| Nongovernment Web Site for Searching the National Library | |
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| Diabetes Information in Other Languages | |
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| Sites for Visually Impaired | |
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| Animals with Diabetes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |
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| Book Registration Information | |