Diabetes Classroom
by Catherine O'Neill Grace
Diabetes Bookshelf
Recently published books with useful information about living with diabetes
Every Woman's Guide to Diabetes: What You Need to KNow to Lower Your Risk and Beat the Odds
By Stephanie A. Eisenstat, MD, and Ellen Barlow
Harvard University Press, hardcover $24.95
At last, a book that is devoted to the unique issues women with diabetes face. This practical, up-to-date guide suggests simple lifestyle changes that can help women reduce their risk of getting diabetes or, if already diagnosed, prevent the most serious complications. Eisenstat, a Harvard Medical School professor, offers strategies to help decrease the emotional stress and social isolation that can accompany diabetes, and offers everyday techniques for managing blood sugar.
50 Secrets of the Longest Living People With Diabetes
By Sheri R. Coldberg, PhD and Steven V. Edelman, MD
Marlowe Diabetes Library, paperback, $15.95
This upbeat book reviews current scientific research on living a long, healthy life with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Through heartwarming stories of real people with diabetes who have lived long and productive lives, the authors provide inspiring ideas about how to live a longer and more fulfi lling life yourself.
Fix-it and Enjoy-it Diabetic CookBook: Stove-Top and Oven Recipes for Everyone!
By Phyllis Pellman Good With the American Diabetes Association
Good Books, paperback, $18.95
This cookbook offers more than 500 easyto- prepare recipes that are appropriate for people with diabetes and healthy for everyone in the family. The American Diabetes Association worked with the author to select the recipes and supplied the nutritional analysis for each one. HM
Helpful Resources
American Diabetes Association
1701 N. Beauregard St.
Alexandria, VA 22311
1-800-DIABETES (1-800-342-2383)
http://www.diabetes.org
American Heart Association
National Center
7272 Greenville Ave., Dallas, TX 75231
1-800-AHA-USA-1 (1-800-242-8721)
http://www.americanheart.org
American Stroke Association
National Center
7272 Greenville Ave., Dallas, TX 75231
1-888-4-STROKE (1-888-478-7653)
http://www.strokeassociation.org
National Cholesterol Education Program
NHLBI Information Center
P.O. Box 30105, Bethesda, MD
20824-0105
1-301-592-8573
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov
National Health Information Center
P.O. Box 1133,Washington, DC 20013-1133
1-800-336-4797
http://www.health.gov/nhic
National Institutes of Health
9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892
1-301-496-4000
http://health.nih.gov
National Institute on Aging
Building 31, Room 5C27
31 Center Drive, MSC 2292
Bethesda, MD 20892
1-800-222-2225
http://www.nia.nih.gov