Diabetes Demystified or Heal Your Heart

Diabetes Demystified

Author: Umesh Masharani

Your ESSENTIAL guide to UNDERSTANDING and MANAGING diabetes

If you or someone close to you has diabetes and you need to learn more about the disease, its complications, and its treatments, help is here. Diabetes Demystified explains the causes of diabetes, the differences between type 1 and type 2, and how diabetes can be effectively controlled.

Written by a doctor specializing in diabetes, this book helps you determine the best treatment plan for your needs and understand the different medications that are available. You'll find important information on day-to-day management, diet, nutrition, exercise, and weight loss. This helpful guide also includes specific recommendations for children, the elderly, and pregnant women with diabetes.

This easy-to-understand guide offers:

• Advice for assembling a treatment team and support network
• An overview of various diabetes medications

  Table of Contents:

  Introduction
  

  Chapter 1 – What is Diabetes?
  

  Chapter 2 – What Kind of Diabetes Do You Have?
  

  Chapter 3 – What Causes Type 2Diabetes?
  

  Chapter 4 - Diet for Diabetics
  

  Chapter 5 – Exercise Guidelines for Diabetics.
  

  Chapter 6 - Vitamins and Herbs for Diabetics
  

  Chapter 7 – Drugs in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes. New versus Old
  vChapter 8 – Insulin Therapy: New versus old types of Insulin
  

  Chapter 9 – Insulin Pump
  

  Chapter 10- What about Islet Cell Transplants?
  

  Chapter 11– What should my Blood Glucose values be?
  

  Chapter 12 – What is Hemoglobin A1c? What should be my target goal?
  

  Chapter 13 – What is Low Blood Sugar and How to Treat it
  

  Chapter 14 – What should my Blood Pressure be?
  

  Chapter 15 – What should my Cholesterol be?
  

  Chapter 17 – Gestational Diabetes
  

  Chapter 18 Complications of Diabetes Heart disease

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  Heal Your Heart: How You Can Prevent or Reverse Heart Disease

  Author: K Lance Gould

  Dr. Gould describes how the heart works and how cardiovascular disease develops and progresses. He introduces readers to new non-invasive medical imaging technologies such as cardiac PET that may potentially provide early diagnoses for people who may be at risk. Extensive scientific references at the end of the book document Dr. Gould's conclusions. Dr. Gould demonstrates how patients and physicians can work together to conquer one of the relentless causes of disability and death. He explains what questions to ask medical staff and how to manage your own reversal program including your doctors, whether specialists or general practitioners. He also advises which cholesterol-lowering medications are safe and effective and when they should be prescribed. This reversal program may replace surgical or catheter procedures for treating cardiovascular disease in most patients. In some specific cases, some people may also need balloon dilation or bypass surgery. Dr. Gould furnishes the criteria used to identify the minority of patients who need them. For this minority, Dr. Gould's reversal program in addition to surgical treatment will provide optimal outcome by dramatically lowering the further risk. For most people, this program produces a sense of well-being and reduces or eliminates symptoms.

  Dr. Gould is a pioneer of cardiovascular medicine who discovered fundamental concepts about the pathophysiology of coronary artery stenosis. His ideas have been ten to fifteen years ahead of their time. They now comprise our current knowledge of the pressure flow dynamics of coronary artery setnoses. The breadth of Dr. Gould's knowledge is astonishing: from theoretical fluid dynamics and experimental coronary physiology to clinical pathophysiology, form positron emission imaging and quantitative coronary angiography to medical economics and office practice of reversing heart disease- each step is innovative, logical, and carefully validated, and crosses subspecialty boundaries. Lance Gould has had not one but several great ideas, and the intellect, courage, and tenacity to validate them from concept to clinical application. —Ward Casscells, M.D., UT-Houston Medical School and Hermann Hospital, and James T. Willerson, M.D., UT-Houston Medical School, and editor, Circulation

  Library Journal

  Here, two cardiologists analyze current treatment strategies for heart disease and offer prescriptions for improving heart health. In Heal Your Heart, an authority on coronary artery narrowing advocates early diagnosis to minimize risk, a very low-fat diet, moderate exercise, and the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Unfortunately, the many current references to the clinical literature with which Gould supports his regimen require considerable effort to locate and then interpret. His recommendation of reducing daily consumption of dietary fat to no more than ten percent of calories is significantly lower than what is currently recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the National Cholesterol Education Program. In addition, the text could have benefited from the inclusion of tables and illustrations more accessible to a general audience. Nevertheless, his book is a worthwhile selection because it provides the sophisticated lay reader with detailed information on how the heart functions and the cause and course of atherosclerosis (coronary artery narrowing) as well as a program for taking control of heart disease that can be modified to suit a wide variety of needs. Recommended for large consumer health collections. Living Longer with Heart Disease poses more questions than it ultimately answers. Authored by the director of the Noninvasive Heart Center, San Diego, it largely serves to question traditional medical practice and much of the current medical establishment, leaving the reader stuck in a maze of medical confusion. For example, Wayne's discussion of the "Cholesterol Myth" may well lead readers to conclude that taking a "statin" (a specific class of drug designed to lower cholesterol levels) may be medically unnecessary. While blaming the pharmaceutical industry's greed for spawning a deceptive mass-marketing campaign concerning the drug's benefits, Wayne fails to inform readers about current AHA guidelines for prescribing these drugs, which clearly state the medical necessity for such therapy as well as recommended dosages and adverse effects. Given Wayne's failure to provide consumers with clear and impartial answers to their medical questions, this book is not recommended.--Gail Hendler, New York Acad. of Medicine

  What People Are Saying

  Charles Schwab
  Achieving financial success but ignoring your heart is not a good investment. Heal Your Heart provides the guidelines and due diligence for preventing or reversing heart disease. Be successful and healthy.

  
  

  Kenneth Lay
  Heart disease imposes great personal and financial costs on corporate America. The successful executive has learned to handle virtually any problem except the specter of a sudden heart attack that disrupts his life and his corporation. Heal your Heart describes in simple terms the scientific basis and guidelines for living a successful corporate life, staying healthy, and saving your heart. It fits the busiest, most stressful career. Every executive, his family, and his staff should read this book and heed its contents. (Dr. Kenneth Lay, Enron Corporation, chairman)

  
  

  James H. Duke
  Heart and vascular disease continue to be major killers, but such does not have to be the case. Heal your Heart tells how to prevent this unnecessary tragedy. Get a copy, read it, and make it a part of your healthy life. Then give a copy to your ten best friends. (James H. "Red" Duke, M.D.)

  
  

  Charles Schwab
  "Achieving financial success but ignoring your heart is not a good investment. Heal Your Heart provides the guidelines and due diligence for preventing or reversing heart disease. Be successful and healthy."

  Charles Schwab

  
  

  S. Ward Casscells
  "Dr. Gould is a pioneer of cardiovascular medicine who discovered fundamental concepts about the pathophysiology of coronary artery stenosis. His ideas have been ten to fifteen years ahead of their time. They now comprise our current knowledge of the pressure flow dynamics of coronary artery setnoses. The breadth of Dr. Gould's knowledge is astonishing: from theoretical fluid dynamics and experimental coronary physiology to clinical pathophysiology, form positron emission imaging and quantitative coronary angiography to medical economics and office practice of reversing heart disease- each step is innovative, logical, and carefully validated, and crosses subspecialty boundaries. Lance Gould has had not one but several great ideas, and the intellect, courage, and tenacity to validate them from concept to clinical application."

  Ward Casscells, M.D., UT-Houston Medical School and Hermann Hospital, and James T. Willerson, M.D., UT-Houston Medical School, and editor, Circulation

  
  

  Kenneth Lay
  "Heart disease imposes great personal and financial costs on corporate America. The successful executive has learned to handle virtually any problem except the specter of a sudden heart attack that disrupts his life and his corporation. Heal your Heart describes in simple terms the scientific basis and guidelines for living a successful corporate life, staying healthy, and saving your heart. It fits the busiest, most stressful career. Every executive, his family, and his staff should read this book and heed its contents."

  Dr. Kenneth Lay, Enron Corporation, chairman

  
  

  James H. Duke
  "Heart and vascular disease continue to be major killers, but such does not have to be the case. Heal your Heart tells how to prevent this unnecessary tragedy. Get a copy, read it, and make it a part of your healthy life. Then give a copy to your ten best friends."

  James H. "Red" Duke, M.D.