The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes: A Patient-Expert Guide for the Newly Diagnosed

Gretchen Becker

Little, Brown Book Group, Oct 25, 2012 - Health & Fitness - 400 pages

Diagnosed with type-2 or non-insulin dependent diabetes in 1996, Gretchen Becker educated herself on every aspect of this chronic condition by reading medical books, talking with doctors, listening to her own body and using the Internet to communicate daily with other people with diabetes. Now, as a patient-expert, she guides all those newly diagnosed through everything they need to learn and do in the crucial first year after diagnosis.
This indispensable guide simplifies but never patronises and offers a wider approach than any so far adhered to by doctors. It answers all the questions that assail the newly diagnosed: How to cope with daily maintenance? How to make sense of the terminology about measurement of blood-glucose levels? How to build self-knowledge and confidence? How, overall, best to adjust to life with diabetes.

About the author

Gretchen Becker is a writer and editor specialising in medical books, and a type-2 diabetic, who lives in Vermont, USA. Gretchen Becker is a writer and editor specialising in medical books, and a type-2 diabetic, who lives in Vermont, USA.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes: A Patient-Expert Guide for the Newly Diagnosed; First Year; Volume 467 of Tom Thorne Novels
• Author: Gretchen Becker
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, 2012
• ISBN: 1472103610, 9781472103611
• Length: 400 pages
• Subjects: Family & Relationships / General; Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Diets; Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Weight Loss; Health & Fitness / Diseases & Conditions / Diabetes; Health & Fitness / General; Medical / Endocrinology & Metabolism