50 Secrets of the Longest Living People with Diabetes - (Marlowe Diabetes Library) by Sheri R Colberg & Steven V Edelman (Paperback)

About the Book

Discover the fifty most essential secrets for attaining a longer, healthier, and more vibrant life with diabetes

Book Synopsis

The latest scientific research confirms that you can live well and long with diabetes without suffering from its more devastating health complications. Whether you have type 1 or type 2 diabetes, you have the ability to improve the quality and length of your life through physical activity, a positive mental outlook, and certain diabetes tools and medications. Now, the longest living people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes share the secrets that have helped them achieve longevity and wellness.

From interviews with more than fifty people who have thrived with the condition for as many as 84 years, diabetes authorities Drs. Colberg and Edelman distill their lifelong habits into fifty user-friendly, easy-to-adopt secrets. Featuring profiles of ten people who have each lived an average of 65 years with diabetes and practical advice for incorporating each secret into your daily life, this invaluable resource will inform, inspire, and motivate you to live well--and fully--to 90 and beyond.

Find out what some of the secrets are:

- Live first and be diabetic second
- Know your numbers and assume nothing
- Have kids if you want to
- Erase your mistakes with exercise

No matter what type of diabetes you have, you control the ability to escape serious complications (or control the ones you may have) and add years, if not decades, to your life.

Review Quotes

""50 Secrets of the Longest Living People with Diabetes" is full of inspiring examples...Indeed, diabetes is treatable and is more and more treatable all the time, while many other chronic diseases are not. This is another of the excellent and positive points that these two authors make throughout this important book."--David Mendosa, coauthor, "The New Glucose Revolution What Makes My Blood Glucose Go Up...and Down?," and author, "Losing Weight with Your Diabetes Medication

""While at the University of Michigan we developed the notion of 'patient empowerment' and 'taking control, ' which Sheri Colberg and Steven Edeman have captured in a most elegant manner with case histories of people who have thrived for many years despite having diabetes."--Aaron Vinik, MD, PhD, director, Strelitz Diabetes Research Center

"Encouraging, informative, and easy to read...this is my kind of diabetes book! If nothing else, you'll be delighted to discover how many of the secrets you've already mastered."--Amy Tenderich, journalist/blogger, www.diabetesmine.com, and coauthor, "Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes"

"Inspirational--and practical. A must read that can make a difference in your life."--Richard N. Podell, MD, clinical professor, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

"The advice that Sheri Colberg and Steven Edelman offer is excellent and will help everyone living with diabetes to live a better, healthier, and longer life. I would also say that much of their guidance would be well heeded by everyone, not just people with diabetes."--Jeff Hitchcock, Children with Diabetes

"Camaraderie is truly what soothes the diabetic breast. As I'm reading read through this book, my neck is getting tired from the constant nodding and saying 'Yes! Yes! This is what it's all about!' Who knows more about living successfully with diabetes than the people who have done it for so many years. After I've soaked up every word, I might be willing to share it with my patients."--Gary Scheiner, CDE, author, "Think Like a Pancreas" and "The Ultimate Guide to Accurate Carb Counting

" "Most books tell you what the authors think you should be doing about your diabetes. "50 Secrets of the World's Longest Living People with Diabetes" tells you what long-lived people with diabetes actually are doing about their diabetes...Their stories are inspiring as well as instructive."--Gretchen Becker, author, "The First Year(R)--Type 2 Diabetes and Prediabetes

" "Information about the inspiring individuals with diabetes was woven in with the fifty great secrets in a very entertaining and educational way. I endorse it to teach, train, and coach those of us with diabetes."--Paula Harper, RN, CDE, founder and president, Diabetes Exercise & Sports Association

About the Author

Sheri R. Colberg, PhD, is an exercise physiologist and associate professor of exercise science in the Exercise Science, Sport, Physical Education and Recreation Department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Having earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, she specializes in research in diabetes and exercise. She continues to conduct extensive clinical research specifically in type 2 diabetes and exercise with funding from the American Diabetes Association. She has also authored close to fifty research and educational articles on exercise and diabetes, as well as two books, The Diabetic Athlete (Human Kinetics, 2001) and Diabetes-Free Kids (Avery, June 2005). She lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Leonel Villa-Caballero, MD, PhD, is a researcher in the Family and Preventive Medicine Department at UCSD School of Medicine. She lives in San Diego, California.