Diabetes Awareness Month Reading List

November is Diabetes Awareness Month- learn more and become informed with these books offering nutritious, diabetes-friendly recipes, meal planning tips, and lifestyle advice to support balanced, healthy living.


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Aging Well with Diabetes: 146 Eye-opening Secrets that Prevent and Control Diabetes.

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Diabetes handbook discusses risks and prevention, symptoms and tests, foods that fight the condition, natural treatments, management, complications, heart issues, and healthy life habits. Includes recipes.

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Digital Book Number: DB095967

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Life Without Diabetes

Roy Taylor

Physician explains that by quickly losing less than a gram of fat from the liver and the pancreas, one can begin to reverse type 2 diabetes. Details how to cut back on daily calorie intake and lose up to thirty-five pounds in just eight weeks. Includes supplemental material. Commercial audiobook.

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Digital Book Number: DB099461

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Your Body in Balance: The New Science of Food, Hormones, and Health

Dr. Neal D. Barnard

A leading authority on nutrition and health offers insight into how dietary changes can alleviate the stress, pain, and illness caused by hormones that are hiding in foods or are influenced by the foods we eat. Includes hormone-balancing menus and recipes. Commercial audiobook.

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Digital Book Number: DB102153

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Healthy at Last: A Plant-based Approach to Preventing and Reversing Diabetes and Other Chronic Illnesses

Eric Adams

Politician and former police officer presents a guide to adopting a plant-based nutrition lifestyle in order to combat chronic disease in the African American community. Topics include creating a network of support, switching nutrition lifestyles, meal planning, understanding the role of vitamins and minerals, shopping, and exercise.

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Digital Book Number: DB106485

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The Complete Diabetes Cookbook: The Healthy Way to Eat the Foods You Love

America's Test Kitchen

Take control of managing diabetes with a one-stop cookbook of 400-plus creative diabetes-friendly recipes. Meticulously tested recipes deliver exceptional flavor and maximum nutrition and provide a healthy way to cook and eat that truly benefits everyone but especially those battling diabetes. 2018.

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Digital Book Number: DB108395

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Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments

Gary Taubes

Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes was treated almost exclusively through diet, from subsistence on meat, to reliance on fats, to repeated fasting and near-starvation regimens. After two centuries of conflicting medical advice, most authorities today believe that those with diabetes can have the same dietary freedom enjoyed by the rest of us, leaving the job of controlling their disease to insulin therapy and other blood-sugar-lowering medications. Rather than embark on "futile" efforts to restrict sugar or carbohydrate intake, people with diabetes can lead a normal life, complete with the occasional ice-cream cake, side of fries, or soda. These guiding principles, however, have been accompanied by an explosive rise in diabetes over the last fifty years, particularly among underserved populations. And the health of those with diabetes is expected to continue to deteriorate inexorably over time, with ever-increasing financial, physical, and psychological burdens. In Rethinking Diabetes, Gary Taubes explores the history underpinning the treatment of diabetes, types 1 and 2, elucidating how decades-old research that is rife with misconceptions has continued to influence the guidance physicians offer-at the expense of their patients' long-term well-being. The result of Taubes's work is a reimagining of diabetes care that argues for a recentering of diet-particularly, fewer carbohydrates and more fat-over a reliance on insulin. Taubes argues critically and passionately that doctors and medical researchers should question the established wisdom that may have enabled the current epidemic of diabetes and obesity, and renew their focus on clinical trials to resolve controversies that are now a century in the making.

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Digital Book Number: DB118639

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Mastering Diabetes: The Revolutionary Method to Reverse Insulin Resistance Permanently in Type 1, Type 1.5, Type 2, Prediabetes, and Gestational Diabetes

Cyrus Khambatta

Maintains that while eating a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet improves short-term blood glucose control, that diet also increases the long-term risk for chronic diseases. Their solution is to eat a low-fat plant-based whole-food diet to reverse insulin resistance in all types of diabetes. Includes more than thirty nutrient-dense recipes. Includes supplemental material. 2020.

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Digital Book Number: DB098915

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A Sweet Life: Seven Unexpected Blessings of Living with Diabetes

Richard Humphreys

Follow Environmental Educator, Community-Builder and Advocate for Diabetic Children Richard Humphreys as he shares his secrets for living a long and productive life with Type 1 Diabetes. 2020. Adult.

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Digital Book Number: DBC25024

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Master Your Diabetes: A Comprehensive, Integrative Approach for Both Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

Mona Morstein

Naturopathic physician and diabetes expert draws from both conventional and integrative therapies in this compendium on diabetes management for patients, caregivers, and medical practitioners. Explains eight essentials of treatment and prevention: diet, exercise, sleep, stress management, healing the gut and microbiome, environmental detoxification, vitamins and other supplements, and medicine. 2017.

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Digital Book Number: DB095211

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The Obesity Code Cookbook: Recipes to Help You Manage Your Insulin, Lose Weight, and Improve Your Health

Jason Fung

New York Times bestselling author Dr. Jason Fung helped thousands of people lose weight with his groundbreaking book The Obesity Code. Now, he offers the ultimate companion cookbook, filled with zero carb recipes and intermittent fasting plans to help readers lose weight, manage type 2 diabetes, and increase longevity, all while eating delicious food. 2019.

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Digital Book Number: DB108351

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