The Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook for Women (Sourcebooks)

Terms of Use......Page 5
Want to learn more?......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction: All in the Family......Page 13
Name Changes and Definitions......Page 17
What Happens in Type 2 Diabetes?......Page 20
Conditions That Can Lead to Type 2 Diabetes......Page 22
Who Gets Type 2 Diabetes?......Page 25
Risk Factors You Can Change......Page 27
Risk Factors You Can't Change......Page 36
Signs and Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes......Page 39
2 Women, Obesity, and Type 2 Diabetes......Page 43
The ''Good Times Disease''......Page 45
Eating Disorders and Compulsive Eating......Page 52
Biological Causes of Obesity......Page 55
Drug Treatment for Obesity......Page 58
Childhood Obesity......Page 60
3 Fertility, Pregnancy, and the Role of Estrogen......Page 63
Getting Pregnant......Page 64
Being Pregnant......Page 69
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM)......Page 72
Special Delivery: The C-Section......Page 76
After the Baby Is Born......Page 79
The Role of Estrogen......Page 81
Menopause......Page 87
Osteoporosis......Page 96
Type 2 Diabetes in Elderly Women......Page 106
5 Lowering Fat and Healthy Eating......Page 109
Understanding Fat......Page 110
Increasing Fiber......Page 118
Food Supplements......Page 122
Putting It All Together......Page 125
Adding Some Activity......Page 128
A Few Good Foods......Page 129
Carbohydrate Counting......Page 133
Grocery Shopping......Page 140
Artificial Sweeteners......Page 143
At the Liquor Store......Page 146
Testing Your Own Blood Sugar......Page 149
What the Doctor Orders......Page 155
When Your Doctor Tells You to Take a Pill......Page 159
Natural Therapies......Page 165
When Your Doctor Prescribes Insulin......Page 167
Getting to Know Your Insulin......Page 175
8 Preventing Hypoglycemia......Page 179
The Lowdown on Low Blood Sugar......Page 180
Juice Is Better......Page 184
Recipe for Prevention......Page 187
9 A Woman's Heart and Diabetes......Page 189
Understanding Heart Attacks......Page 190
Understanding Stroke......Page 196
10 A Woman's Nerves and Diabetes......Page 203
Nerve Damage from Head to Toe......Page 204
Foot Complications......Page 213
Open Wounds......Page 217
When You Require an Amputation......Page 219
11 A Woman's Face and Diabetes: Eyes and Teeth......Page 225
Preventing Diabetes Eye Disease......Page 226
Signs of Eye Disease......Page 227
Can Diabetes Eye Disease Be Treated?......Page 229
Coping with Low Vision or Blindness......Page 230
Visual Aids......Page 231
Diabetes and Tooth Decay......Page 235
Diabetes-Related Gum Disease......Page 236
Signs of Gum Disease......Page 239
Seeing a Gum Specialist......Page 240
12 Women, Diabetes, and Kidney Disease......Page 243
What Affects Your Kidneys?......Page 244
Signs of Diabetic Kidney Disease......Page 246
Treating Kidney Disease......Page 247
From Kidney Disease to Kidney Failure......Page 249
When You Want a Kidney Transplant......Page 253
Appendix: Diabetes Resources......Page 257
Bibliography......Page 261
Index......Page 269