The book that's been helping people with diabetes live their best lives for 20 years

Diabetes For Dummies is a trusted resource that guides those diagnosed with diabetes and pre-diabetes and their caregivers towards optimal health. This book helps you, or those you love, achieve the life you want while managing diabetes with lifestyle changes, alternative therapies and the latest medications. This fully updated edition helps you tackle your symptoms with the confidence that you're doing the latest stuff and following the newest advances in diabetes treatment. Powerful lifestyle strategies, new medications, monitoring equipment, nutritional guidelines, delicious recipes, and insulin delivery methods--it's all in this friendly Dummies guide.

• Understand the types of diabetes and learn about your diagnosis
• Learn the latest treatment options, medications, and evidence-based therapies
• Manage your symptoms and live a full life with expert diet and lifestyle tips
• Answer your questions with this trusted, compassionate guide, now in its 6^th edition
• Take control and understand how to improve or even prevent and reverse prediabetes and diabetes

This book is an indispensable resource for those newly diagnosed with diabetes, and prediabetes, their loved ones, and care givers, as well as health care professionals who need an up-to-date reference on the latest in diabetes research.

Easy-to-follow recipes for nourishing, satisfying, diabetes-friendly meals

Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies helps you maintain control of your health without giving up tasty, fulfilling meals. With 125 new recipes and an eight-page color insert, this cookbook combines fabulous flavors with proven health benefits. Award winning chef Amy Riolo and internationally renowned doctor Simon Poole provide a holistic understanding of diabetes and show you how to maximize nutrition at meals whether you're living with diabetes, prediabetes, or simply want to gain better control of your health. Each recipe includes a breakdown of ingredients, explaining how various taste profiles affect health and giving you a glimpse of the powerful effects of micronutrients and bioactive compounds. Learn to boost your health and feel better with this trusted Dummies cookbook.

• Create diabetes-friendly meals that balance high-quality carbohydrates with healthy fats and sustainable proteins
• Enjoy delicious, chef-inspired recipes that everyone will love
• Learn how micronutrients and superfoods can enhance your health and life
• Follow meal plans that make sense, no matter where in the world you are located
• Get a clear summary of the latest scientific understanding of diabetes nutrition

Following the nutritional advice and recipes in this guide will prove that even with diabetes, living with both pleasure and health in mind is easy. Those newly diagnosed with diabetes or prediabetes, and their care givers will love the mouth-watering recipes in Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies.

Learn how to eat well, improve your health, and enjoy life with diabetes

The new edition of Diabetes Meal Planning & Nutrition For Dummies offers you a holistic approach to living your best life with diabetes. Optimize your diet and plan delicious meals that will empower you to take control, improve your health, prevent, and even reverse diabetes. Written by an award-winning chef and renowned doctor who are both experts in the field of nutrition, this book helps you understand what defines healthful eating for diabetes, its crucial role to long term health, and how meal planning is a key to successful diabetes management. Learn how to receive all the nutrients necessary for glucose control while managing Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes and maintaining ideal weight. Discover how to supercharge your diet and protect yourself from the complications associated with diabetes with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant-rich foods. To get you started, this indispensable guide includes 22 mouthwatering, easy to recreate, and affordable recipes that maximize the benefits of nutritious ingredients to regulate blood glucose levels. The kitchen and shopping hacks will enable you to master culinary therapy and take delight in preparing meals and cooking. This updated edition includes:

• Practical examples of meal plans perfectly suited for prediabetes, Type 1, and Type 2 diabetes
• A whole person approach to diabetes that focuses on diet, lifestyle, exercise, and medical treatment
• Coverage of new therapies and the latest evidence on how gut health can help with diabetes management
• Nutrition facts and health benefits for your favorite ingredients, so you can eat what you love

Diabetes Meal Planning & Nutrition For Dummies is an excellent resource for those interested in the latest diabetes-friendly nutrition guidelines, as well as anyone who has been diagnosed with diabetes or has a loved one who has been diagnosed, or would like to prevent it.

Take charge of your heart health with this guide to managing cholesterol

Managing Cholesterol For Dummies demystifies cholesterol and clearly offers effective solutions for prevention, management, and lowering it which have changed in recent years.

This approachable guide helps you understand why balancing overall cholesterol is important, and what you can do to improve your numbers and keep them in check. It also navigates the latest lifestyle tips, medical treatments, complementary therapies, and culinary nutrition research available to keep your heart in shape. You'll also learn what cholesterol really is, how it's formed and linked to inflammatory processes you can reverse, and why it's never too early to think about keeping cholesterol regulated. If you're managing an existing condition, this book will help you make sure you're on a treatment path that works for you. This Dummies guide lays it all out in a clear way, so you can get your cholesterol questions answered without feeling overwhelmed.

• Learn how to maintain good health and reduce the risk of diseases linked to high cholesterol
• Get the latest cholesterol insights, like oxidized LDL cholesterol and why it matters
• Make mouthwatering recipes packed with fiber, antioxidants, and healthful fats to fight inflammation
• Decide on a treatment plan, including medications and complementary therapies, that's right for you

For anyone dealing with elevated cholesterol or helping a loved one manage their numbers--and for people who want to avoid high cholesterol altogether--Managing Cholesterol For Dummies covers all the must-know information for staying healthy.

Winner of the World Best Mediterranean Cuisine Book - the Dun Gifford Prize - in the Gourmand Best in World awards, also the National Best Diet Book in the 'for the public' category.

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Is it true that two tablespoons of olive oil a day can halve your risk of heart disease and help sustain weight loss?

Can olive oil kill cancer cells, fight Alzheimer's Disease, revive a failing heart and even turn off bad genes?

The Olive Oil Diet takes an authoritative look at the science behind the headlines. Recent studies have shown that a diet based around olive oil will significantly improve your health, well-being and vitality. It will also help you maintain a healthy weight and avoid heart disease, stroke and diseases such as cancer, diabetes and dementia.

All olive oils are not the same, however. This book also explores the effects of diverse varieties of olives, growing techniques and oil-production methods on the health-giving properties - and flavour - of different oils. With over 100 delicious recipes, it points the way to those extra virgin oils and food combinations that are likely to do you the most good.

This fascinating journey to the heart of the Mediterranean reveals the extraordinary health secrets of nature's original superfood.