Lifestyle Makeover for Diabetics and Pre-diabetics: 5 Lifesaving Action Steps You Must Take Now to Prevent, Manage Or Reverse Diabetes and Its Deadly ComplicationsDo you have diabetes? Are you at risk for developing diabetes? Are you confused about how to manage your condition without changing your life drastically? You can make favorable lifestyle changes, simply and easily, and prevent or reverse severe complications of this complex disease. Knowledge is powerful medicine. This guide contains 5 crucial Action Steps for ultimate diabetes control: understanding your disease; knowing your medications; monitoring the critical parameters such as blood sugars, blood pressure and cholesterol; learning treatment options; making favorable lifestyle changes such as losing weight permanently; and managing stress. In this guide, you will find information your doctor did not tell you about how to: - Prevent scary complications and be in control of your diabetes by understanding it - Use the Meal Blueprint to lose weight forever and make balanced food choices every day - Makeover your meals whether you dine out or cook at home - How to work in simple daily activity (don t call it exercise) - Boost your sex life, regardless of your age - Enjoy the blessings of excellent health, a natural lifespan and peace of mind while living with diabetes |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
What is Diabetes? | 8 |
What You Absolutely Must Know at a Glance from Action Step | 15 |
Hypoglycemia | 22 |
The Importance of Taking Aspirin or Other BloodThinning Medications | 41 |
Potential Debilitating and LifeThreatening Complications of Diabetes | 47 |
Following up with Janet | 61 |
Breaking the Hunger Cycle Code | 166 |
What Is a Reasonable Progression Approach to the Amount and Duration | 225 |
The FeelingGood Factor | 231 |
Tips on Staying Active While Having Physical Challenges | 239 |
Some Real Worries and How People Generally Deal with Them | 253 |
The Severe Consequences of Consuming | 262 |
The Benefits of a Healthy Sexual Life | 269 |
Resources | 289 |
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Common terms and phrases
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