Complete Guide to Carb Counting: How to Take the Mystery Out of Carb Counting and Improve Your Blood Glucose Control

by Hope S. Warshaw, Karmeen Kulkarni, Karmen Kulkarni, et al.

Book Overview

The completely revised Complete Guide to Carb Counting , 3rd edition, by the American Diabetes Association, provides you with the knowledge and the tools to put carbohydrate counting into practice. Rewritten and reorganized to introduce and explain carb counting concepts as you'll need them in your diabetes care plan, you'll learn why carb counting helps you manage your blood sugar, the amount of carb to eat, how to count the carbohydrates in meals,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580404367
• ISBN13: 9781580404365
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: American Diabetes Association
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great help

This is a great book, i am a newly diagnosed Type 2 Diabetic and found the book to be most helpful in learning about Carb Counting.

Guide to Carb Counting

Very important information to help anyone with carb counts. Highly recommend.

Carb Counting

I found this book very helpful finding the foods I eat regularly and how many carbs each food has. Thank you

Excellent book

I was newly diagnosed type 1 in June 2005. This is by far the best of all the books I have read. It gives excellent information and guidelines on how to eat healthy and keep tight control of your blood sugar using the carb counting method. Very informative and very helpful at a time when I felt so confused trying to deal with my diabetes.

For anyone needing flexible food choices

Complete Guide To Carb Counting is an excellent how-to-guide for anyone needing flexible food choices as they balance today's modern lifestyles with the need for blood sugar control. It is very possible for diabetics to fit in all the foods they care to eat ranging from home cooked meals to convenience foods, to elegant restaurant cuisines by controlling their carbohydrate intake. Complete Guide To Carb Counting is an American Diabetes Association reference offering an A to Z carbohydrate counting guide and instructions for everything necessary to better diabetes management. If you, a family member, or a friend must control blood sugar levels to insure good personal health, then Complete Guide To Carb Counting, enhanced with record keeping forms and real life stories from people using carb counting techniques, is a "must read" reference.