The Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook for Women

A vital sourcebook for the millions of American women diagnosed with type 2 diabetesThe Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook for Womenanswers women's questions about how to manage diabetes and shows how to cope with the disease to live a fuller, healthier life. A major revision of M. Sara Rosenthal's guide on the subject,The Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook for Womenfocuses on: The revised screening guidelines for diagnosis The latest medications and treatments available How women's hormones interact with insulin How menopause and pregnancy affect diabetes management How low-carb diets can be dangerous for women with type 2 diabetes How to follow the ADA carb counting guidelines while avoiding weight gain

M. Sara Rosenthal, Ph.D., is the author of more than 25 recommended health books, including The Gynecological Sourcebook and The Thyroid Sourcebook for Women. She is currently Director, University of Kentucky Program for Bioethics and Patients' Rights and Assistant Professor, Bioethics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine. For more information, visit the author’s website at www.sarahealth.com.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction: All in the Family

xi

What Is Type 2 Diabetes, and Who's at Risk?

1

(26)

Name Changes and Definitions

1

(3)

What Happens in Type 2 Diabetes?

4

(2)

Conditions That Can Lead to Type 2 Diabetes

6

(3)

Who Gets Type 2 Diabetes?

9

(2)

Risk Factors You Can Change

11

(9)

Risk Factors You Can't Change

20

(3)

Signs and Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes

23

(4)

Women, Obesity, and Type 2 Diabetes

27

(20)

The ``Good Times Disease''

29

(7)

Eating Disorders and Compulsive Eating

36

(3)

Biological Causes of Obesity

39

(3)

Insulin Resistance and Obesity

42

(1)

Drug Treatment for Obesity

42

(2)

Childhood Obesity

44

(3)

Fertility, Pregnancy, and the Role of Estrogen

47

(24)

Getting Pregnant

48

(5)

Being Pregnant

53

(3)

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM)

56

(4)

Special Delivery: The C-Section

60

(3)

After the Baby Is Born

63

(2)

The Role of Estrogen

65

(6)

Type 2 Diabetes, Menopause, and Aging

71

(22)

Menopause

71

(9)

Osteoporosis

80

(10)

Type 2 Diabetes in Elderly Women

90

(3)

Lowering Fat and Healthy Eating

93

(20)

Understanding Fat

94

(8)

Increasing Fiber

102

(4)

Food Supplements

106

(3)

Putting It All Together

109

(3)

Adding Some Activity

112

(1)

How Sweet: Counting Carbs and Planning Meals

113

(20)

A Few Good Foods

113

(4)

Carbohydrate Counting

117

(7)

Grocery Shopping

124

(3)

Artificial Sweeteners

127

(3)

At the Liquor Store

130

(3)

Self-Care and Medications

133

(30)

Testing Your Own Blood Sugar

133

(6)

What the Doctor Orders

139

(4)

When Your Doctor Tells You to Take a Pill

143

(6)

Natural Therapies

149

(2)

When Your Doctor Prescribes Insulin

151

(8)

Getting to Know Your Insulin

159

(4)

Preventing Hypoglycemia

163

(10)

The Lowdown on Low Blood Sugar

164

(4)

Juice Is Better

168

(3)

Recipe for Prevention

171

(2)

A Woman's Heart and Diabetes

173

(14)

Understanding Heart Attacks

174

(6)

Understanding Stroke

180

(7)

A Woman's Nerves and Diabetes

187

(22)

Understanding Diabetic Neuropathy

188

(1)

Nerve Damage from Head to Toe

188

(9)

Foot Complications

197

(4)

Open Wounds

201

(2)

When You Require an Amputation

203

(6)

A Woman's Face and Diabetes: Eyes and Teeth

209

(18)

Preventing Diabetes Eye Disease

210

(1)

Signs of Eye Disease

211

(2)

Can Diabetes Eye Disease Be Treated?

213

(1)

Coping with Low Vision or Blindness

214

(1)

Visual Aids

215

(4)

Diabetes and Tooth Decay

219

(1)

Diabetes-Related Gum Disease

220

(3)

Signs of Gum Disease

223

(1)

Seeing a Gum Specialist

224

(3)

Women, Diabetes, and Kidney Disease

227

(14)

What Do Your Kidneys Do?

228

(1)

What Affects Your Kidneys?

228

(2)

Signs of Diabetic Kidney Disease

230

(1)

Treating Kidney Disease

231

(2)

From Kidney Disease to Kidney Failure

233

(4)

When You Want a Kidney Transplant

237

(4)

Appendix: Diabetes Resources

241

(4)

Bibliography

245

(8)

Index

253

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