Staying Healthy with Diabetes Series

Joslin -- the leading diabetes expert for more than 100 years -- is always the first source for the most current information regarding diabetes
management. And now Joslin would like to offer you these three books on diabetes management, Staying Healthy with Diabetes — Weight &
Wellness, Staying Healthy with Diabetes — Nutrition & Meal Planning and Staying Healthy with Diabetes — Physical Activity & Fitness.
These books in the Staying Healthy with Diabetes Series offer the latest information and techniques on managing your weight, the importance of
using a meal plan to fit your lifestyle and the benefits of physical activity to maintain good health while living with diabetes

Managing Diabetes
Staying Healthy with Diabetes -- Physical Activity & Fitness

Physical activity is good for everyone, but it is especially important for a person with diabetes because it improves the body’s ability to handle
glucose. This book in Joslin’s Staying Healthy with Diabetes Series explains how physical activity can lower your blood glucose by improving your
body’s ability to use both glucose and insulin. It also provides information about weight loss, managing highs and lows during physical activity,
exercising when you have other physical limitations and how to avoid the road blocks to fitness.

There are countless advantages that physical activity and fitness have to offer.  For example:

 It helps tone and strengthen muscles and helps the heart and lungs work more efficiently, which means more energy.
 Physical activity is especially beneficial for people with diabetes, because it lowers blood glucose levels.
 People who take diabetes pills often find they need less medication as they perform regular physical activity. The same is true for
people who take insulin; the dose may need to be adjusted to prevent a low blood glucose.
 Physical activity helps control your weight and tone your muscles, and is essential for maintaining weight loss.
 Regular physical activity also helps prevent type 2 diabetes.

Physical Activity & Fitness will tell you all you need to know about how to get the physical activity you need in a way that’s easiest and safest for
you.  Written by exercise physiologist, Cathy Mullooly, MS, RCEP, CDE, and the Staff of Joslin Diabetes Center, it explains how activity helps
manage diabetes, its effect on weight loss, first steps to fitness, managing low and high blood glucoses during activity, the best type of activity or
activities for you (i.e. aerobic, resistance, stretching) and exercising when you have other physical limitations.   Physical Activity & Fitness offers a
realistic approach to fitness, lays to rest some common myths about diabetes and exercise, and provides ways to avoid the road blocks to being
active.

Managing Diabetes
Staying Healthy with Diabetes -- Weight & Wellness
Being overweight affects every system in your body – and not for the better. For people who are at risk for, or who already have type 2 diabetes,
being overweight affects the body’s ability to use insulin. But here’s the good news: research has shown that losing even a small amount of weight
will help the insulin your body makes be more effective. And for those at risk for developing diabetes, reducing your weight can delay or prevent
it! Weight & Wellness was written to provide information and strategies to help you achieve a healthy weight and maintain it over time.

The scientific jury is in and the verdict is clear: weight loss is directly related to improved diabetes control.

Weight management goals are different for everyone and weight loss presents a special challenge for people with diabetes. Based on the nutrition
guidelines developed by Joslin Diabetes Center and the lessons learned from Joslin’s WhyWAIT? Program, Staying Healthy with Diabetes --
Weight & Wellness offers tools and support strategies for your weight management program.

Weight & Wellness explains how to determine a healthy weight for you, meal planning and how to overcome barriers to beginning a weight
management program. Special issues, such as meal replacements, popular diets, weight loss medications and surgery, and weight loss for children
and adolescents are also covered.

In addition, through clear, concise discussions of the importance of issues, such as metabolism, glycemic index, glycemic load, reading nutrition
labels and BMI/waist circumference, this book will give you the knowledge you need to help you make the lifestyle choices that are right for you.

Staying Healthy with Diabetes -- Nutrition & Meal Planning

We are pleased to announce the publication of a book that will tell you everything that is important about nutrition and meal planning for those with
diabetes. Written by well-known Joslin nutritionist Amy Campbell and the staff of Joslin Diabetes Center, this book offers guidance and tips on
what a meal plan should look like, carb counting, tips for cooking and baking, meal replacements and much more.

Managing your diabetes is all about making choices -- and choosing what foods you will eat is one of the most important.  Staying Healthy with
Diabetes - Nutrition & Meal Planning  will help you understand which of the foods you're currently eating may help keep your blood glucose levels
as close to your target range as possible.  It will explain which foods you may need to eat more of -- or perhaps less of if they are negatively
affecting your body weight, cholesterol or blood glucose levels.  You'll also find information on the glycemic index, eating out, alcohol, vitamins,
and grocery shopping tips, as well as Joslin's Food Lists -- 32 pages which provide serving sizes (each containing 15 grams of carb) for
carbohydrates (breads, cereals, vegetables, cookies, crackers, fruit, favorite breakfast items and deserts);  proteins (meats, cheeses, eggs); fats;
"free" foods; combination foods; fast foods and vegetarian foods.

The CalorieKing Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter - 2014 Edition

This amazing little book - an invaluable aid to meal planning and newly revised for 2012 - will tell you the number of calories and the number of
grams of fat and carbohydrate of just about any food you can think of. It has guides and counters for sodium, fiber, protein and calcium. It also
includes the menu offerings of 200 chain and fast food restaurants, and the calorie, carb and fat content of each item. With numerous tips for weight
loss and healthy eating, this is a book you won’t ever want to be without. It makes a great gift too!

Are you using carbohydrate counting or fat gram counting as part of your diabetes management program?  Are you trying to lose weight? If so, The
CalorieKing Calorie, Fat and Carbohydrate Counter will make the task much simpler and easier. This indispensable resource lists the fat,
carbohydrate and calorie content of thousands of foods, and provides full analysis of items offered at 200 fast food chains and restaurants, ranging
from Dunkin Donuts, McDonald's and Burger King, to Boston Market, Denny's and Au Bon Pain.  It also offers a fiber, iron, protein and calcium
counter for many commonly used foods.

On the Road: Eating Well with Diabetes

Where are you on the road to eating well with diabetes? This booklet will help you be more in charge of your diabetes care when it comes to
nutrition and meal planning.

Learn how different foods affect your diabetes, how to fit your favorite foods into your meal plan, how to read food labels and understand serving
sizes, common barriers to healthy eating and how to overcome them, how to create healthy meals and eat more healthfully, and more!