Diabetes

Morrone Lisa

Description

One in three Americans over 21 has diabetes or pre-diabetes. Even more dangerous, many of them don't know they do.But there's hope. According to successful writer and health professional Lisa Morrone, making changes to halt the progress of a diabetic condition--even reverse some of the deterioration--is far simpler than dealing with the physical, relational, and financial consequences of untreated disease, such as nerve, liver, and cardiovascular damage. Lisa leads readers through a straightforward process of education and motivation:a summary of diabetes dangers, which includes a self-quiz to assess their conditiona survey of the body's sugar-processing mechanism, emphasizing the mechanism of diabetesstep-by-step lifestyle changes that can preserve or restore their healthGood health comes when good information is incorporated into life. This action-oriented resource gives readers help to change and hope for a healthy, productive life that will benefit themselves and others.

Informations

• Publié par: Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
• Date de parution: 01 juillet 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780736939645
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

What Experts Are Saying About Books by Lisa Morrone, PT

Diabetes “I love tis book because it takes you on a journey troug diabetes and ten gives you a ligt at te end of te tunnel, teacing ow to prevent type 2 diabetes and ow to reverse te prediabetic state and metabolic syndrome. Sould be read by everyone interested in living a full and ealty life.” —Mariano CastroMagana, MD, director, pediatric endocrinology and metabolism, Wintrop University Hospital, Mineola, New York

Overcoming Overeating

“A practical, sustainable, and results-oriented approac tat will guide you to permanent mind cange…Overcoming Overeating provides bot te wy and te ow toward becoming te new, ealty you.”

—J. Ron Eaker, MD, pysician and autor of Fat-Proof Your FamilyandA Woman’s Guide to Hormone Healt

“A compreensive remedy for weigt loss. Lisa rigtly views weigt problems as aving teir origin in not just pysical, but also mental, emotional, and spiritual arenas…An invaluable resource to te countless people struggling in tis area of teir life.”

—David Hawkins, PhD, psycologist, director of te Marriage Recovery Center, and autor ofWen Pleasing Oters Is Hurting You

“If you ave struggled wit overeating, tis resource will provide you wit practical elp. Lisa walks wit you troug te book… giving you a clear strategy to restore balance to your life in te area of eating. I igly recommend tis work.” —Scott Forsmith, LCSWR

Overcoming Headaches and Migraines “A gift to eadace sufferers and tose in te ealt professions wo are committed to elping tem.” —Howard Makofsky, PT, DHSc, OCS ead pain expert

“A must-ave for every ome reference library.” —ArmChairInterviews.com

“A complete and understandable guide for bot te practitioner and te patient…Lisa Morrone’s extensive preparation, researc, and years of experience are reflected in te safe and clinically proven tecniques se recommends. A must-read for primary and specialty providers…and of course, anyone wo suffers from eadaces.” —William Robert Spencer, MD, FAAP ear, nose, and throat specialist

Overcoming Back and Neck Pain “he treatments recommended are practical, well described, and well illustrated…An invaluable resource.” —John Labiak, MD, ortopaedist and spinal surgeon

“Unique—it enables te nonmedical person to understand and manage teir pain, but it is compreensive enoug to be an excel- lent resource and reference guide for pysicians wo take care of tese problems. Well done.” —Warwick Green, MD, ortopedic surgeon

“A very practical approac to te key tings patients really need to know. I recommend it to all sufferers from spine problems…I appreciate Lisa’s treatment of every person as someone wo as not only a body and mind, but a spirit as well.” —Kent Keyser, MS, PT, OCS, COMT, ATC, FFCFMT, FAAOMPT, practicing and teacing pysical terapist

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All Scripture quotations are taken from te Holy Bible, New International Version , NIV . Copyrigt © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc. Used by ® ® ™ permission of Zondervan. All rigts reserved worldwide.

Cover by Dugan Design Group, Bloomington, Minnesota

Cover poto © Dugan Design Group Grapics and back-cover poto by Peter Morrone; illustrations by Rose C. Miller Lisa Morrone is publised in association wit William K. Jensen Literary Agency, 119 Bampton Court, Eugene, Oregon 97404.

his book is not intended to take te place of sound professional medical advice. Neiter te autor nor te publiser assumes any liability for possible adverse consequences as a result of te informa- tion contained erein.

DIABETES Copyrigt © 2010 by Lisa Morrone, P.T. Publised by Harvest House Publisers Eugene, Oregon 97402 www.arvestousepublisers.com

ISBN 978-0-7369-2820-5

All rights reserved.No part of tis publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means— electronic, mecanical, digital, potocopy, recording, or any oter—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, witout te prior permission of te publiser.

Printed in the United States of America 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 / BP-NI / 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

To my sweet cildren (now teenagers!), Casey and Adam:

Wat a privilege it is to be your mom! I love you wit all tat I am. May te content of tis book, wic we seem to ave discussed on so many occasions around our dinner table, be a reminder to you bot to always make ealty coices wen it comes to te care and maintenance of te glorious bodies you’ve been given.

“Love te Lord your God wit all your eart and wit all your soul and wit all your mind and wit all your strengt!”

Acknowledgments

Lunc on a winter’s day in Manattan wit Harvest House Publisers’ VP of Editorial, LaRae Weikert, is were tis book idea began to take root. LaRae, you picked up on my passion for tis subject, and even toug I was up to my eyeballs in book con- tracts, you someow managed to get me to add anoter! Now tat tis book as come to be, I am grateful, once again, for te opportunity to work wit you and te rest of te Harvest House team. It truly is a message tat, as you put it,needsto get out tere!

To Peter, my usband, my friend, and my first line- editor once again: hank you for your insigtful comments and critiques of tis work. My books and I are better for it.

To Mary Flanagan, my friend, pysician, and medical expert: hank you for taking te time to ensure tat my researc and writing was medically and scientifically sound. My readers will be blessed by your efforts.

To my Restoring Your Temple Prayer Team: Not a word in tis book was written tat you did not intercede for. hank you for upolding me and my calling eac week. he prayers of te saints are precious…

Lastly to Paul Gossard, my editor at Harvest House: hank you for smooting out tis work and sarp- ening its message. You are invaluable to me!

CONTENTS

 Foreword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

9

 Headed for Trouble? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11  Introducing a Diabetes Predictor SelfQuiz

 1. Sweet but Deadly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19  The Diabetes Epidemic, a National Killer

 2. Do You Fit the Profile? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33  Interpreting Your SelfQuiz

 3. What Goes Up Must Come Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41  How Your Body Regulates Its Sugar

 4. The Road to Diabetes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55  Understanding Metabolic Syndrome

 5. Is Diabetes in Your Future? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69  Lab Tests

 6. Am I at Risk? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81  Physical Measurements

 7. Marshmallows for Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93  What You Don’t Know About the Food You Eat

 8. More Than Enough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109  Figuring Out How to Take a Healthy Portion

 9. “Ex”Rated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115  “Ex”ercise—a Necessity If You’re Serious About  Preventing Diabetes

10. Which Road Will You Choose? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

 Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145