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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 | |