Diabetes The Ultimate Teen Guide

Diabetes: The Ultimate Teen Guide, is a practical, hands-on guide that addresses the social and health issues specific to diabetic teens. Intended to empower teens to take control over the diabetes through effective disease management, they learn how to stay healthy and live life to the fullest-even with diabetes-through this no-nonsense guidance.

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1 Fitting In!

1

(2)

2 What Is This Diabetes Anyway?

3

(12)

3 What's the Plan, Man?

15

(16)

4 Reflecting on Checking

31

(10)

5 To Eat and What Not to Eat? That Is the Question!

41

(8)

6 Insulin-The Glucose Key

49

(16)

7 The Marvels of Medicine!

65

(8)

8 The Magic of Exercise!

73

(10)

9 Let Me Off This Roller Coaster!

83

(6)

10 The Freedom of Pumping!

89

(6)

11 I'm Sick with the Flu, What Do I Do?

95

(8)

12 The Good News! You Have Control Over the Complications of Diabetes!

103

(18)

13 Can I Do This on My Own?

121

(16)

14 Peers, Beers, and Tears

137

(10)

15 Keeping It All Together

147

(6)

16 The Real Deal behind the Wheel!

153

(6)

17 What to Know When You're on the Go

159

(8)

18 What's Coming down the Road?

167

(8)

Index

175

(6)

About the Author

181

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Diabetes The Ultimate Teen Guide

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