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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 3
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Stacey struggles with her parents because they refuse to believe that she has diabetes; to complicate matters, the Club is threatened when another group of kids set up a babysitting service similar to theirs.
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Hormones. Growth spurts. Mood swings. All combined with blood sugars ... The teen years with diabetes on board are a challenging time for parents and anyone who cares about a child with diabetes. Raising Teens with Diabetes: A Survival Guide for Parents, by well-known diabetes mom, author, and advocate Moira McCarthy, is a no-nonsense, honest approach at not just surviving but thriving in those years, from a mom who has been there.
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The straight facts on treating diabetes successfully
With diabetes now considered pandemic throughout the world, there have been an enormous advances in the field since the last edition of Diabetes For Dummies. Now significantly revised and updated, it includes the latest information on medications and monitoring equipment, updated diet and exercise plans, new findings about treating diabetes in the young and elderly, new ways to
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Just because you have diabetes doesn't mean you can't enjoy life, eat well, and be healthy! In this fourth edition of her best-selling title, Elaine Magee clearly presents the latest medical findings on what causes diabetes, available treatments, and the dietary implications of this disease. She includes everything you need to know to live with diabetes, from using an individualized carbohydrate budget and using the glycemic index and glycemic load,...
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From the global pioneer whose work inspired The 8 Week Blood Sugar Diet, a Iife-changing guide to reversing type 2 diabetes. For centuries type 2 diabetes has been regarded as an incurable, lifelong condition - a case of 'Abandon hope all yet who enter here'. Now, thanks to Professor Roy Taylor, there is a way out to reversing the fastest growing disease in the world. After years of studying the causes of diabetes, in 2006 Professor Taylor and his...
7) 96 miles
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"During a massive blackout in rural Nevada, two brothers struggle to survive without their self-reliance-obsessed dad and without enough water to cross the desert for help"--OCLC.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 43
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The pressure's really on Stacey and she hasn't been feeling well. Then she ends up in the hospital because of her diabetes.
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Parenting Children with Diabetes offers parents a 360-degree view of what is happening to their child living with diabetes, providing special tools, insight, and education to help parents and their children navigate diabetes management, communicate clearly and effectively, and live safely and healthfully in the world around them.
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Advance praise for Stop Prediabetes Now
"As usual, Jack Challem has brought us a book right on target and ahead of the health curve. This surprising, unbiased book tells the truth about a condition that has clearly become a hidden epidemic in this country. Stop Prediabetes Now is one of the most important books to be published in a very long time."
-Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S., New York Times bestselling author of The Fat Flush Plan and...
11) Puppy love
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"When Sophie Vasquez and her sisters dreamed up Puppy Promise-their service puppy training school-it was supposed to be her chance to bring some good into the world. But how can she expect to do anything when no one will take her seriously? Enter Harrison Parks: a rough, gruff, take-no-bull wildlife firefighter in need of a diabetic service dog. He couldn't be a more unlikely fit for Sophie or Bubbles--the sweet Pomeranian she knows will be his perfect...
12) Skyward
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Monroe delivers this story of healing and new beginnings, set in the mystical South Carolina Lowcountry. Single father Harris Henderson finds himself torn between the troubled wife who left him and their young daughter and the woman who has awakened his feelings.
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It is possible to manage and even reverse diabetes through natural means, and in Reversing Diabetes, Dr. Colbert shows you how.
Most people view diabetes as a dead-end street. Once you receive a diabetes diagnosis, your only option is to manage the symptoms with a restricted diet, close monitoring of blood sugar, and expensive medications. Dr. Colbert shows that diabetes can be treated instead through safe, natural means, like healthy food and vitamins...
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Updated to include the latest developments in medicine and practices for diabetes treatment, as well as the most current information on new medication delivery methods, this comprehensive guide covers every aspect of living with diabetes. This user-friendly book takes a look at both the medical and nutritional sides of the disease and teaches diabetics how to balance diet, medication, and exercise for optimal health from the start. The diet and exercise...
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• The most up-to-date medical information on type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes
• Assess the risk factors, get diagnosed, and receive the right treatment from the best possible health-care providers
• Helpful tips for purchasing, storing, and administering insulin
• The emotional challenges of living with diabetes, or caring for a loved one
• Common complications and how to avoid or minimize them
• Control blood-sugar levels with...
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More than 120 million North Americans have diabetes or pre-diabetes (high blood sugar), and about 2 million new cases are diagnosed each year in the US. Of these, ninety percent are type 2 diabetes, the most common form of this deadly disease that prevents the body from using the insulin it produces. This life-changing eBook is the definitive holistic guide to achieving optimum blood sugar balance. The impact of her father's battle with diabetes led...
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Sixteen-year-old Jasmin has just moved to the seemingly idyllic west of Ireland with her mother and stepfather.
Weird things soon begin to happen around her, though.
There's the strange man with black eyes, who seems to be following her around Ireland, a local farmer, who takes an unusually strong interest in her, and a cryptic warning from a man who carves Irish myths into wood. When a visit to a Megalithic tomb propels Jasmine into a world of supernatural...
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From America's Most Trusted Health Authority, the Ultimate Guide to Understanding, Preventing, and Managing Type 2 Diabetes
Millions of Americans have type 2 diabetes, and millions more are at risk of developing the disease. The good news is that it is both preventable and treatable. In the American Medical Association Guide to Living with Diabetes you'll learn everything you need to know to prevent type 2 diabetes, take control of it if you already...
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I was approaching my 37th birthday, and slowly killing myself. At just under five foot eight, I weighed almost 400lbs and was a "Bad Diabetic," as my elderly mother declares, as if there were any other kind. When I was diagnosed in 1988, Diabetes education was all but absent from medicine and Diabetes was not the national epidemic it is today. I did little to address the disease and eventually was taking more than the maximum doses of oral anti-diabetic...