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| Foreword | |
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| How to Use This Book: Three for the Road to Understanding Type 2 Diabetes | |
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| Introduction: The Worst of Times, The Best of Times | |
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| Type 2 Diabetes: What Is This Thing Called Diabetes? | |
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| Definitions of Diabetes | |
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| "Thrifty" Genes | |
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| Who Gets Diabetes? | |
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| Hypertension and Diabetes | |
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| Ways and Means of Control: Doing What You Have to Do | |
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| Goals for Blood Sugar Levels | |
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| Glycohemoglobin Test | |
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| Urine and Blood Glucose Testing | |
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| Keeping Records | |
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| Medication: Pills and Insulin and Lizard Spit! | |
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| Buying Supplies | |
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| Exercise: Your Lifetime Savings Plan | |
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| Benefits of Exercise | |
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| Setting Goals | |
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| Stretching | |
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| Walking: Shoes and Socks | |
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| Strength Training | |
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| Food, Diet, Nutrition: The "Only More So" Disease | |
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| Swimming in the Conservative Mainstream: The Low-Fat, High-Carbohydrate, High-Fiber Diet | |
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| The "Fast Fast" | |
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| Low-Fat Lifestyle | |
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| Restaurant Dining | |
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| Binge Eating | |
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| Carbohydrates | |
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| Glycemic Index | |
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| Fiber | |
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| Snacking | |
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| Riding the Radical Rapids: The Low-Carbohydrate, High-Protein Diet | |
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| Emotional Aspects of Diabetes: My Enemy/My Friend | |
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| Denial | |
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| Motivation | |
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| Attitude | |
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| Family and Friends | |
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| Stress | |
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| Sex | |
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| Fear of Insulin Injection | |
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| Adjusting to Loss of Spontaneity | |
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| Paying the Bill for Diabetes: Dollars and Nonsense | |
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| Health Insurance | |
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| Generic Drugs | |
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| HMOs | |
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| Private Insurance | |
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| Pooled-Risk and COBRA Insurance | |
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| Medigap and Senior Plans | |
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| Diabetes in Children and Young People: Youth Must Be Served-Especially When They Develop Diabetes | |
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| Dietary Considerations for Children and Young People with Type 2 Diabetes | |
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| Exercise for Children and Young People with Type 2 Diabetes | |
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| Television | |
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| Too Little Sleep | |
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| Diabetes in Children and Young People: A Summing Up | |
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| Taking the Risk Out of Risk Factors | |
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| Heart Attack and Cardiac Arrest | |
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| Strokes | |
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| Alzheimer's | |
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| Glaucoma | |
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| The ACCORD Study: What You Need to Know | |
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| Two Little Afterwords | |
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| At My Age, Why Should I Bother? | |
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| The Diabetes Gospel According to Virginia Valentine | |
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| Reference Section | |
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| A Few of Our Favorite Things | |
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| Surgical Weight-Loss Options | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Diabetes Web Sites | |
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| Index | |