The Mind-Body Diabetes Revolution The Proven Way to Control Your Blood Sugar by Managing Stress, Depression, Anger and Other Emotions

The Mind-Body Diabetes Revolution is the first book to show how stress, depression, and anger affect blood sugar. It's also the first to provide a proven, step-by-step health program to help the millions of people with diabetes manage their disease. Until now, this life-changing program was available only to patients at Duke University Medical Center, but The Mind-Body Diabetes Revolution makes it available to everyone who needs it -- diabetic people and the millions at risk for developing the disease. Over the past forty years, little has changed in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Diet, exercise, and medication are still the three primary methods used to control blood sugar. Yet diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions not just in the United States, but also in other countries all over the world. Now, after twenty years of research, Dr. Richard S. Surwit -- a leader in the field of the psychology of diabetes -- adds the vital fourth component to treating diabetes: a revolutionary mind-body program that lowers blood sugar levels and dramatically reduces the disease's serious, damaging side effects, which can include painful nerve damage, heart disease, impotence, eye problems, and kidney ailments.

Richard S. Surwit, Ph.D., is vice chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and chief of the division of medical psychology at Duke University Medical Center. Alisa Bauman is a professional writer whose work has appeared in Better Homes & Gardens, Prevention, and Yoga Journal