"Conquering Diabetes" by Anne Peters, MD is a good source of information on preventing and treating diabetes. Her comprehensive program will help readers recognize their risks for diabetes and start a treatment plan to prevent diabetes. If you are a diabetic, her program will teach you to work with your doctors so you can take a major part in your own diabetes treatment. This is a great book and I recommend "Conquering Diabetes" to anyone who has diabetes or may be at a risk for diabetes.
How to Conquer Prediabetes and Diabetes
Dr. Peters covers these important areas:
- How to form a partnership with your health-care team.
- How to understand your health history and making sense of your "numbers" so you know what all those lab tests mean.
- How to keep good records for test results and medications you are taking.
- How to eat wisely and get enough exercise. Weight loss and the right diet will help to improve your health.
From Dr. Peters:
"It is important that your physician encourages you to try to get better and believes in your ability to become healthier, or to maintain your health if your health is good. Your physician should be helpful in referring you to see other providers, if you need additional help. Telling you to 'go and lose weight' or to 'start exercising' without providing you with specific advice and someone to help you make these changes is simply not enough. Nor is giving you a preprinted piece of paper with diet instructions on it. You are an individual and deserve individual help and guidance as you deal with pre-diabetes and diabetes."About Dr. Anne Peters
Dr. Peters is a national authority on diabetes. She has been published in several medical journals and she is a professor of medicine and director of the University of Southern California Clinical Diabetes Programs.
