Complete Idiot's Guide to Diabetes

The answers to an epidemic-now updated. The millions of people diagnosed with diabetes can learn how to live a healthy, normal life with this guide. It teaches readers how to explore all of the available treatments, monitor and manage blood glucose levels, recognize warning signs of low blood sugar, buy, use, and store insulin, make new diet and lifestyle choices, incorporate daily exercise, and avoid long and short-term complications. *Includes the first-ever released American Diabetes Association official dietary Guidelines *Updated content on new medications and monitors *More information for those who have become insulin resistant or have pre-diabetes

Mayer Davidson, M.D., is a professor of medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine and director of the Clinical Trials Unit at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science in Los Angeles.Debra L. Gordon is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about health and health care for more than 15 years.