November is National Diabetes Month and it’s an important “awareness” topic as we head into the end of year holidays. It’s important for those with a pre-diabetic and diabetic condition prepare for the holidays in a way that allows them to participate but with an eye to being pro-active on what to eat and also preparing foods that work within that type of diet. Hope Warshaw is an expert on diabetes and she has written books on how to plan meals– which is critical for successfully managing these conditions. Hope Warshaw is our guest blogger for this week and she talks about how to use her book, “Diabetes Meal Planning Made Easy”. More than a cook-book, it’s better described as a “how-to” guide plus so much more!
Today there’s a staggering 29 million people in the US estimated to have diabetes, the majority of people have type 2 diabetes (about 20 million). In addition, there’s an even more staggering 86 million Americans with prediabetes (pre-type 2 diabetes). This is defined as when blood glucose is higher than normal, but not high enough to diagnosis type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Meal Planning Made Easy book is focused squarely on helping people newly diagnosed with (or now at the point they’re ready to deal with) prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.
People who will gain the greatest value from this book are ready, willing and able to take slow and steady steps to manage and hopefully prevent or slow the progression of their diabetes. What we know today, more so than ever before, is that the sooner and earlier that a person with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes takes the bull by the horn, so to speak, to take care of their diabetes, the healthier they will be over the long haul. We know that early, aggressive management and control of glucose levels, blood pressure and blood lipids (cholesterol), over the years is what can and will keep you healthiest. Heart disease, loss of eyesight and kidney disease doesn’t have to be anyone’s reality today. But taking care of diabetes is nearly 100% up to the person with diabetes.
The book, Diabetes Meal Planning Made Easy, is not simply about what and how to eat healthy with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes. A focus of the book is helping people make the critically important lifestyle behavior changes to tweak (or perhaps overhaul) your eating habits, food choices and patterns of physical activity. Keep in mind, this is not easy work. Accomplishing lifestyle behavior changes takes effort, fortitude and perseverance! My heartfelt and sincere advice: Take one day at a time. Don’t be defeated. If at first you don’t succeed. Do not beat yourself up. Get back up! Rethink your plan, focus on how you can set small, achievable goals. Then forge ahead. You can do this!
I wrote the first edition of Diabetes Meal Planning Made Easy back in the late 1990’s because I felt people with diabetes needed a no-nonsense, easy-to-read book that offers the how-tos of eating healthy with diabetes. This is now the 5th edition of this perennial American Diabetes Association best-selling book. Today, people increasingly want cut to the chase, actionable information they can easily accomplish in their fast-paced convenience-driven daily life. The 5th edition of Diabetes Meal Planning Made Easy is just that. The key aim of the book is to help people, as easily as possible, make small incremental changes in their eating habits and lifestyle to live healthier.
The book is loaded with practical tips, tricks and tactics on how to slowly but surely evolve eating habits and foods choices to eat healthier…and live healthier.
Find it on Amazon.com and all your usual booksellers!
Diabetes Meal Planning 5th Edition.
Please, if you know you have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, think about how you can take action, even a few baby steps, to acknowledge your diabetes and start to take care of yourself. Good luck in your efforts!
Bio for Hope R Warshaw:
Hope Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE, is a nationally recognized expert in diabetes management, specializing in the nutrition management of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. During her nearly 40 years of work in this field, she’s authored several books for the American Diabetes Association, including Eat Out, Eat Well: The Guide to Eating Healthy in Any Restaurant. Warshaw is also a contributing editor to Diabetic Living magazine and writes the Nutrition Q&A column for The Washington Post. During 2016 Warshaw is serving as President of the American Association of Diabetes Educators.
Twitter: @hopewarshaw
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EatHealthyLiveWell/
Website: http://www.hopewarshaw.com/
Gratitude and thanks to Hope Warshaw for her insightful commentary and her Must-Have book!
Stevie Wilson,
LA-Story.com
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