The Diabetes Sports and Exercise Book: How to Play Your Way to Better Health - Softcover

"Exercise is the fun part of diabetes therapy," asserts The Diabetes Sports and Exercise Book. This is a new, completely updated edition of a book that forged new ground when first published in 1977. At that time, health professionals told people with diabetes to "slow down" and "rest," not realizing how important physical activity was. Now exercise is considered one of the three basic components of diabetes control, helping to bring down high blood sugars, manage weight, raise spirits, and decrease stress and fatigue. Exercise creates "invisible insulin," as if you're getting an extra shot or taking an extra blood-sugar-lowering pill. This book is written as a dialogue between Graham, a diabetes expert (who has Type I diabetes) with a Ph.D. in exercise science; and Biermann and Toohey, authors of many books on diabetes, including the first edition of this book. The result reads like an informal, friendly interview, where facts and tips emerge painlessly. You learn the benefits of exercise for diabetes control, how to choose activities and exercise correctly, ways to fit physical activity into your life, how to exercise if you have complications, and sports and exercise for diabetic children and seniors. You'll be inspired by the chapter that revisits the people who were interviewed in the first edition--they're still passionate about exercise. --Joan Price