The Knee SourceBook or Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes

The Knee SourceBook

Author: Marc Darrow

This straightforward guide takes you step by step through the causes, symptoms, and treatments for common injuries and chronic conditions of the knee. The Knee Sourcebook explains what to do immediately after an injury to avoid more harm and discusses the benefits of rehab versus surgery.

Marc Darrow, M.D., J.D., is the medical director of Joint Rehabilitation and Sports Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is a board certified, UCLA-trained physiatrist and specializes in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation. In addition to practicing medicine with an emphasis on musculoskeletal injury, sports medicine, and prolo therapy, Dr. Darrow has practiced law since 1973.

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Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes

Author: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicin

A simple new dietary approach to preventing and treating diabetes

You can help prevent and control diabetes through simple diet and lifestyle changes that are a pleasure to make instead of a chore. This book shows you how. Drawing on the latest diabetes research, Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes presents a complete and sensible plant-based nutrition program that can help you prevent, manage, and, in certain cases, even reverse diabetes.

Covering Type 1(childhood-onset), Type 2 (adult-onset), and gestational diabetes, this book provides detailed nutritional guidelines that have been carefully drafted by Physicians Committee diabetes experts, along with nearly 100 delicious, easy-to-make recipes to help you put these healthy eating principles to work right away. Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes contains important information on:

• Exercise and lifestyle issues
• Achieving and maintaining healthy weight
• Diabetes and pregnancy
• Preventing complications from diabetes
• And more

Whether you or a loved one has diabetes or is at risk of developing it, this book will give you the crucial knowledge you need to take charge now–of your diet, your health, and your life.

Also available:

Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Cancer (0-471-43597-X)
Healthy Eating for Life for Children (0-471-43621-6)
Healthy Eating for Life for Women (0-471-43596-1)

Table of Contents:

Preface.
ESSENTIALS.
Understanding Diabetes.
The Power of Food: A New Dietary Approach to Overcoming Diabetes.
Healthy Eating Basics.
MAKING IT WORK FOR YOU.
Preventing Diabetes.
Achieving and Maintaining Healthy Weight.
Managing Your Diabetes with Food.
Managing Your Diabetes with Medicine.
Healthy Blood Vessels, Healthy Heart.
Preventing Complications.
LIFE LONG HEALTH.
Exercise Matters.
Diabetes During Pregnancy.
Planning for Success.
Recipes for Overcoming Diabetes.
Resources.
References.