Prediabetes for Dummies (ISBN - 0470523018)

387 Pages·2021·3.95 MB·English

Alan L. Rubin, MD
Bestselling author of Diabetes For Dummies

Learn to:
• Understand the signs, causes, health risks,
and treatments

• Reverse prediabetes with diet suggestions,
meal plans, and exercise tips

• Avoid the progression to diabetes

• Model a healthy lifestyle for your
children

Prediabetes

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• Whether you’re at risk for
prediabetes

• Food ingredients to avoid

• Tips for shopping for food

• Detailed instructions on starting a
simple exercise plan

• Special considerations for children
and the elderly

• When to consider surgery for an
obese child

• Coverage of gestational diabetes

• Ten staples to keep in the kitchen

• Online resources for additional
information and support

Alan L. Rubin, MD, is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on
prediabetes and diabetes. He is the author of Diabetes For Dummies,
Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies, Type 1 Diabetes For Dummies, and
Thyroid For Dummies.

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The tools you need to stop
prediabetes in its tracks

An estimated 60 million people in the United States have
prediabetes, a condition that, if not addressed, can lead
to serious long-term health problems. Prediabetes For
Dummies gives you a look at the signs of this precursor to
diabetes and offers up-to-date and easy-to-understand
information about how it can be treated and reversed.

• Battling an unhealthy lifestyle — information on identifying
problem foods, facing your weight, the risks of being sedentary,
and the impact of stress

• Getting a diagnosis — clear coverage of the tests you’ll need to
secure a diagnosis and how to interpret results

• Avoiding or reversing prediabetes — practical tips on how to
stay away from problem foods, change your eating habits, and
exercise daily

• Realizing the dangers of moving toward diabetes — facts on the
short- and long-term consequences of diabetes, including how it
affects sexual health and pregnancy

• Considering weight-loss surgery — trusted advice on bariatric
surgery and what it can (and can’t) do for you

• Seeing a healthier you in three months — an easy-to-follow,
week-by-week plan to confront prediabetes

• Understanding the prediabetes epidemic — a practical overview
of the origins and threats of prediabetes, the people it affects,
and its devastating toll on the lives of children and adults, our
healthcare system, and our nation

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Prediabetes

FOR
DUMmIES

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by Alan L. Rubin, MD

Prediabetes

FOR
DUMmIES

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Prediabetes For Dummies®

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About the Author

Alan L. Rubin, M.D., is one of the nation’s foremost experts on diabetes.
He is a professional member of the American Diabetes Association and the
Endocrine Society and has been in private practice specializing in diabetes and
thyroid disease for over 30 years. Dr. Rubin was Assistant Clinical Professor
of Medicine at University of California Medical Center in San Francisco for 20
years. He has spoken about diabetes to professional medical audiences and
non-medical audiences around the world. He has been a consultant to many
pharmaceutical companies and companies that make diabetes products.

Dr. Rubin was one of the fi rst specialists in his fi eld to recognize the signifi -
cance of patient self-testing of blood glucose, the major advance in diabetes
care since the advent of insulin. As a result, he has been on numerous radio
and television programs, talking about the cause, the prevention, and the
treatment of diabetes and its complications.

Since publishing Diabetes For Dummies, Dr. Rubin has had four other bestselling
For Dummies books — Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies, Thyroid For Dummies,
High Blood Pressure For Dummies, and Type 1 Diabetes For Dummies — all
published by Wiley Publishing. These four books cover the medical problems
of 100 million Americans.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my new granddaughter, Rachel Natania Ross, who
was born almost exactly when the book was completed. It is my fervent hope
that she will never need the information in it, but if so, that it contains all she
needs to know to live a long, healthy, active life.

Author’s Acknowledgments

For this fi rst edition, acquisitions editor Michael Lewis deserves major
thanks. I have had the pleasure of working with him for several years. He is
supportive, encouraging, and fun and I look forward to a long association
with him. I am also blessed with another great project editor, Joan Friedman,
who not only made sure that everything was readable and understandable,
but offered excellent suggestions to improve the information. My thanks also
to Dr. Dawn Ayers for reviewing the book.

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