Diabetes Essentials

Quick and easy top ten lists on a range of important Type 2 Diabetes topics for the newly diagnosed.

This new guide from Karen Graham is a shorter companion book to Complete Diabetes Guide and Diabetes Meals for Good Health Cookbook. Diabetes Essentials includes easy diabetes tips covering 72 subjects, including medications, nutrition, gut bacteria, exercise, recipes and more. For each of the 72 subjects, Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator Karen Graham along with MD and Diabetes expert Mansur Shomali offer the ten top tips for that subject (with 720 total tips across all subjects), including "Answers to Your First Diabetes Questions," "Prediabetes," "Diabetes First Ten Days," "Diabetes Medical Terms," "Lab Tests," "Testing Your Sugar Level at Home," "Low Blood Sugar Episodes," and "Steps to Reduce a High Morning Blood Sugar."

Meant as a Diabetes primer for the newly diagnosed, this book contains essential advice meant to supplement the other two highly-respected books in the series. It will arm those who might be confused about their diagnosis and about their path forward with information about their condition and about managing it using nutrition, exercise, medication and other strategies.

Karen Graham's Diabetes series is market-leading and has sold 250,000 copies across all titles and editions. She has an easy-to-understand approach and has devoted her career to helping those with diabetes improve their lives.

About the Authors

Karen Graham, RD, CDE is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Diabetes Educator and nutrition counsellor with over 30 years of specialization in the management and treatment of diabetes. She lives in British Columbia, Canada.

Dr. Mansur Shomali, MD, CM, is the associate Director of the Diabetes and Endocrine Center at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, MD, where he also serves as the Program Director for the Fellowship Training Program in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Instructor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD.