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Informationen zum Autor Cheryl Chow has been a writer, editor, and journalist for more than 20 years. James Chow, MD, is a member of the American Academy of Family Medicine. Klappentext Includes an improved diet planEscape the blood sugar blues and start feeling better today!Need to get a handle on your hypoglycemia? If so, this friendly guide offers expert advice on identifying symptoms and making the necessary lifestyle changes so you can live a full and active life. This book features expanded coverage on diet, exercise, alternative treatments, and the link between low blood sugar and diabetes. Most importantly, it shows you how to develop and follow a healthy diet plan -- the first step to dealing with this condition.* Prevent low blood sugar episodes*Fight depression and stay motivated*Make it through the work day*Help hypoglycemic infants and children*Find the support you need Zusammenfassung Hypoglycemia simply means "low blood-sugar," but without concrete symptoms it's very hard to diagnose. It is nevertheless a condition that should be watched over carefully. People react differently to low blood sugar as well as to the treatment they receive. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Conventions Used in This Book 2 What You're Not to Read 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 Foolish Assumptions 3 How This Book Is Organized 3 Part I: Addressing Your Ups and Downs: Could This Be Hypoglycemia? 4 Part II: Diagnosing and Treating Your Hypoglycemia 4 Part III: Emulating Lifestyles of the Well and Healthy 4 Part IV: Spinning a Network of Support for Yourself (and Others) 4 Part V: The Part of Tens 4 Where to Go from Here 5 Part I: Addressing Your Ups and Downs: Could This Be Hypoglycemia? 7 Chapter 1: Riding the Blood Sugar Roller Coaster Isn't Any Fun 9 Defining Hypoglycemia 9 Organic 10 Relative 10 Reactive 11 Like a Greased Pig: Easy to Define, Tough to Pin Down 11 Identifying key symptoms 13 Arriving at a diagnosis 13 Knowing Who's Prone 15 Prevailing problem: The pudge! 15 Like a couple of hooligans: Linking hypoglycemia and diabetes 16 Heading Toward Better Health 16 Chapter 2: Digesting Hypoglycemia: Your Body's Role 19 Absorbing Some Physical Food 19 Breaking down proteins 20 Pancreas plays its part 21 Insulin gone awry 23 Tracing Cause and Effect 24 Multiple causes 24 Exhausting your adrenals 25 Ravaging your health: The couch and the potato 26 Sugar, sugar, everywhere - except where you need it 27 Addressing Addictions: The Link to Low Blood Sugar 28 Chapter 3: Symptoms without a Cause 31 Jumping on Stage: No, You're Not Faking It 31 Eying the Physical Symptoms 32 Identifying the Emotional Symptoms 33 Unmasking Hypoglycemia's Hidden Faces 35 Reactions to food 36 Overlapping syndromes 39 Haggling with hypothyroidism 41 Joining the hypo bandwagon: Hypoadrenalism 42 Hypoglycemia and Diabetes - Flip Sides of the Same Coin? 43 Looking at the syndrome flowchart 43 Identifying the types of diabetes 44 Nailing Down Hypoglycemia: Symptoms throughout the Ages 46 Hypoglycemia and newborns 46 Hypoglycemia and children 47 Hypoglycemia and pregnant women 47 Hypoglycemia and menopausal women 48 Hypoglycemia and older people 48 Part II: Diagnosing and Treating Your Hypoglycemia 49 Chapter 4: Matching Up with the Right Doc 51 Why Seeing a Doc on a Regular Basis Is Important 51 Paging Dr. Perfection 52 Knowing what to look for in a doc 53 Finding the right doc 54 Dealing with doubters 56...
List of contents
Introduction.
Part I: Addressing Your Ups and Downs: Could This Be Hypoglycemia?
Chapter 1: Riding the Blood Sugar Roller Coaster Isn't Any Fun.
Chapter 2: Digesting Hypoglycemia: Your Body's Role.
Chapter 3: Symptoms without a Cause.
Part II: Diagnosing and Treating Your Hypoglycemia.
Chapter 4: Matching Up with the Right Doc.
Chapter 5: Getting the Lowdown on Low Blood Sugar.
Chapter 6: Gorging on Good Health.
Chapter 7: Hanging with Herb and His Buddies Vitamin and Supplement.
Part III: Emulating Lifestyles of the Well and Healthy.
Chapter 8: Easing Symptoms and Energizing with Exercise.
Chapter 9: All Stressed Out and Nowhere to Go.
Chapter 10: Defanging the Depression Demons.
Chapter 11: Making It through Your Day at Work.
Part IV:Spinning a Network of Support for Yourself (and Others).
Chapter 12: Jockeying for Support.
Chapter 13: Dealing with Friends and Family: Eat and Let Eat.
Chapter 14: Suffering Along with Your Sweetie?
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 15: Ten Myths about Hypoglycemia.
Chapter 16: Ten Hints for Helping Hypoglycemics.
Index.
