Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes: 5 Essential Health Factors You Can Master to Enjoy a Long and Healthy Life

by Amy Tenderich, Richard Jackson, Richard Jackson

Book Overview

Five tests are the cornerstones for monitoring your overall health with diabetes and developing a daily management plan -- yet few of the more than 21 million people in the United States living with diabetes know their results of these five tests: A1c Blood pressure Lipids (HDL, LDL, triglycerides) Microalbumin Yearly eye exam Knowing your five key test results will enable you to manage your condition as successfully and fully as possible, and achieve...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569242720
• ISBN13: 9781569242728
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Great Reading!!

This Book is wonderful especially for the newly diagnosed Diabetic, it is very informative and helpful.I learned a great deal. I would suggest this book to be a part of required reading for all diabetics.

Must read this book

I wish I could put a copy of Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes: 5 Essential Health Factors You Can Master to Enjoy a Long and Healthy Life in every diabetes clinic. Better yet, in the hands of every person with type 2 diabetes. Richard Jackson, MD and Amy Tenderich provide a realistic guide to diabetes, particularly type 2 diabetes, with this book. The focus is on the results of the five tests that determine diabetes health (A1C, blood pressure, lipids, microalbumin, and eye exam) and the importance of physical activity rather than providing another lecture about weight loss and forbidden foods. Countering fears about insulin is another important aspect of this book. If someone needs insulin to keep good results coming on the five key tests, they should not fear it - they should embrace it as a way to curb future complications. I might not be able to provide a copy to every person with type 2 diabetes...or even every diabetes clinic, but I can lend my copy to those interested in learning more about their own or their loved one's condition.

The Key to Outliving Diabetes

Many of us fear what we do not know, which could be why the diagnosis of diabetes is so harrowing. Fear no more. Amy Tenderich and Dr. Richard Jackson, MD teamed up to shed some light on the heaps of material we must digest to control our diabetes. They have simply explained it all in this book. It begins by explaining the five tests that are the cornerstones for monitoring your overall health with diabetes. These tests are: A1c, blood pressure, lipids, microalbumin, and an annual eye exam. You may think you know it all because you've been there, done that. But do you really know - what it tests, why it's done, and what your numbers should look like? After you learn what those tests mean to you and your health - Amy and Dr. Jackson help you develop a plan of action. They build a road, paved with easy to understand (and explained remarkably well) information about nutrition, medicine, organic treatments, support, and specialized shopping sites for diabetes. I was impressed beyond my expectations. Knowing the award winning caliber of work Amy produces, and the integrity of Dr. Jackson's work with Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical - I was looking for a good guidebook on diabetes care. No ma'am. This book is AWESOME! I knew it would be good, Amy. You've outdone yourself, once again. I hope this book motivates everyone who reads it to know their numbers and outlive their diabetes.

An easy read with great results for your diabetes

Having read Amy Tenderich's Diabetes Mine blog for some time, I pre-ordered this book. First of all it's an easy read. Yes there's some repetition, I kept hearing the drumbeat of more exercise, more exercise as I went through the book. But this isn't a book of bad news for people with diabetes. It's a book all about how you can focus your efforts on things that really need the work. Amy and Richard Jackson do a great job of explaining the five factors (my ordering of these): A1C; lipids; blood pressure; microalbumin; and eyes. They show what the various numbers mean for the first four and how to work on improving the values you're getting. One value I got from reading, before I was half-way through the book, was that I finally really understood the exercise thing. So I've purchased a pedometer and am always looking for an excuse to work more. I also like their idea of determining which ones are problems for you. This is like paying off your highest interest debt, rather than your largest on. Find out which health factor is the most problematic for you and improve that one. Then you can move on to the next. I think this book is essential reading for anyone with diabetes whether Type 1 or Type 2. I highly recommend it.