Managing Your Weight A Balanced Approach - Softcover

Diabetes UK

 
9781899288861: Managing Your Weight A Balanced Approach

Synopsis

This book has been designed to provide information and act as a reference for managing your weight if your have diabetes. It is not a complete guide or a comprehensive package to losing weight. It highlights the importance of weight management for people with diabetes and the relationship between blood glucose control and being overweight. It also gives practical advice on losing weight or controlling weight whether your diabetes is managed by diet alone, tablets or insulin treatment. Although there are general guidelines for weight loss, having diabetes makes two important differences. Firstly, being overweight carreis more health risks in diabetes and secondly, dietary changes may affect the amount of diabetes medication you need.

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