Diabetes Center

Keisha and Friends - So Leroy Has Diabetes - Health Education for Kids
$29.99
This digitally animated series provides knowledge that can help young people and their families learn more about diabetes and assist them in making lifestyle choices that will lead to optimal lifelong health. The enclosed guidebook includes questions and answers to help you start a conversation about diabetes with young people, and lists resources you will find useful later.

Joslin's Diabetes Deskbook: Co-Published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Joslin's Diabetes Center
$65.00
More than 20 million Americans have diabetes, which can lead to blindness, kidney failure, and amputations. This book from the world-renowned Joslin's Diabetes Center in Boston is directed to primary care providers--internists, family practitioners, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, dieticians, counselors--who manage diabetes in their patients most every day. The authors discuss the pathogenesis of diabetes and its complications, along with the most current thinking and guidelines about diagnosis, prescription, monitoring, nutrition, exercise, medications, insulin, patient education, and many other topics. All chapters have been peer-reviewed.

One Touch Ultra Mail Order Test Strips, 50 CT
$37.95
I use the One Touch Ultra test strips in a research environment to diagnose diabetes in rats. We go through a huge amount of these strips over time and they have always performed excellently. We have a clinical assay for glucose measurement and the glucose values from the strips correlate quite nicely with the assay. Both the strips and glucometer are very easy to use and I would highly reccommend them to anyone.

The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle: Lifestyle Center of America's Complete Program for Overcoming Diabetes, Restoring Health, and Rebuilding Natural Vitality
$15.95
I had the good fortune to visit the LCA Center in Sulphur, OK, in June of 2008. I was a "guest" (really a patient) there for about two weeks of lectures, testing, eating only a 100% vegan diet, cooking/shopping lessons, and gentle exercise. I use both insulin and Metformin for Type 2 diabetes, which I've had for several years. After my stay--and still following (essentially) the vegetable-based diet, my A1C went from 6.6 to 5.4. After several months trying to stick to this regime, my A1Cs have been no higher than 5.5 and I've lost a lot of weight. My insulin dosage came down by 50 percent. Retinopathy has stopped advancing, and retinal swelling is gone. I'd recommend that you read this book and get the cookbook also. The key is the vegetable-based diet. The writing style is clear, and the recommendations have lots of scientific support and are not too hard to put in place in even a busy lifestyle. I moved from near despair to hope. Well worth the price. I even gave this material as gifts!