Think like a pancreas A practical guide to managing diabetes with insulin

Writing for insulin-dependent diabetics, certified diabetes educator and exercise physiologist Scheiner covers the knowledge and actions needed to control blood glucose levels successfully: an understanding of insulin types, proper use of equipment, coordination with the healthcare team,diet and exercise, and a positive attitude. As a Type 1 diabetic, he relates his own difficult experience of adapting his lifestyle and regulating his blood sugar with the less advanced knowledge and technologies of 1986. He then discusses improvements in equipment and medications that have made tighter control possible, emphasizing the long-term benefits of quality disease management. Scheiner's analogies are excellent, and his examples of maintaining control while traveling, dining out, or ill are concrete and instructive. Only the explanations on insulin dosing confuse, and that's due to the complicated nature of the subject, not Scheiner's writing. For motivated readers, then, and consumer health collections. Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans' Hosp., Tampa (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.