Conditions and Diseases Books

The book deals with real problems faced by real people BEFORE the introduction of modern insulin pumps. The pump solves many if not most problems discussed in the book.

One of the biggest obstacles we faced when my daughter was diagnosed at 2 was not battles over shots or finger pokes; it was over food. We were used to having pleasant, sit-down dinners as a family, but at 2 years old, she had the power to send me into panic mode when she wouldn't eat the carbs I had already given her insulin for. No amount of punishment, crying (on my part), or anything else worked to get her to understand the importance of eating what I had set out for her. How could it? She was only 2. I found this book while browsing titles and it saved our family dinner! By giving her insulin after she had eaten, I got the control over our family dinner back and it became a pleasant experience again. Also, she started eating more when she wasn't being hassled about it, and she needed to put some weight back on. We still maintained excellent control (not perfect, but ours never has been). We've had diabetes for 5 years and I'm still thankful we had a way to deal with a very trying issue at a very stressful time (diagnosis).

This book contains the most common sense, practical information I have found yet for helping manage my toddlers diabetes. This is not a medical text, but an easy to read guide for managing insulin, meals and the behavioral problems related to diabetes. There are excellent suggestions on how to not let the behavioral problems develop. I highly recommend this "down to earth" book

This is an excellent book especially for newly diagnosed kids and their parents. It was easy to read and understand. I have implemented many ideas from this book and I highly recommend it.

A wonderful book that took me through the hurdles when my grandson was first diagnosed. I referred to it again when researching my own book about type 1. I recommend it highly.

I rated this book with 5 stars because it opened door for me down a path of learning,understanding and managing diabetes.

This book is a must have companion to the "The What to Eat If You Have Diabetes" book. It offers excellent plant-based whole food recipes can can be eaten by diabetics and non diabetics.

I would have given this book 5 stars, but I think they should have included more recipes.

Note: If you have an aversion to or dislike seaweed, tofu, or legumes, this book is probably not for you.

This book is a great companion to the "The What to Eat If You Have Diabetes" book. It offers excellent plant based recipes good for both diabetics and non-diabetics.

I would have given the book 5 stars, but I only gave it 4 stars because they should have included more recipes. It is not the largest recipe book so I hope the authors publish a second cookbook with more recipes.

I happen to love seaweed, tofu, and legumes, but if you dont like them this book might not be for you.

This book was a pleasent surprise when it arrived. I had turned to vegetarian/health food cookbooks in search of good recipies, but still could not manage my diabetes well enough. This book is not vegetarian, but has similar recipies to books that promote healthy eating.

I did find some confusion in shopping for this book. This book is a companion to What To Eat if You Have Diabetes (NTC/Contmeporary 1999). This book features only recipes, and the first book printed has more information about food composition, etc. I am pleased enough with this one, to search out the first book in the pair.

The companion book to "What to Eat If You Have Diabetes".

This cookbook contains lots of delicious recipes for everything from appetizers to desserts.

Great menu ideas even if you don't have diabtes.

GREAT RECIPES AND INFORMATION FROM YEARS OF RESEARCH. A "MUST READ" PUBLICATION FOR US ALL.

Most of the books written on this subject are not reliable sources of reasonable advice and guidance. This book stands out as the best on the subject... and the recipes are great!

This book was a huge disappointment to someone trying to take care of a cancer patient. It is, in essence, a re-hash of the familiar food pyramid guidelines that advise low-fat, low-protein and high-carbohydrate diets, organized around specific cancers. The scientific basis, if there is one, relates to epidemiologic studies of cancer risk. It might be helpful to someone who is trying to reduce their risk of various cancers by altering their dietary habits, but I doubt if this book has much more to offer than most of what has been published on that topic over the past several years. It has no scientific grounding for those who already have cancer, and may in fact suggest dietary patterns that would undermine the nutritional needs of those who are already in treatment, when fats and proteins may be friends. For someone undergoing cancer treatment, or in recovery from that ordeal, it has very little to offer that the hand-outs in your doctor's office don't already tell you.

This is an excellent book. It allows cancer patients and their caregivers to understand why certain foods and eating styles may help or hurt. It also provides sample recipes to start the patient along in modifying his/her diet.

I found this book so very helpful. I have a couple of health issues that can be controlled with dietary monotoring, but sometimes we wonder, is this ok or not, should I have this food, or not, and this book tells me what I needed to know, and it is written in a very frank way, leaving no doubt as to what you are being told. Of course no book can take the place of seeing your Dr., but this book answers so many questions.

This book has been instrumental in bringing relief to several personal aches and pains over the years. Whether instantly calming two Colicky crying babies, by simply following this book's advice of turning on a vacuum cleaner, I suggest handheld, or extremely helpful information about relieving Gout. These remedies have been right-on-the-mark. For sufferers of all ailments, what have you got to lose?

This book is interesting. It gives you an array of suggestions broken down by topic. It covers your entire family and pets. There are notes from doctors covering the suggestions on the topics and I thought it got out of hand a bit there. But it gives you something to think about and go from there.

We have all heard of various wives tales, and home remedies, and most likely tried one or two when we have had an ailment. This book is compiled by Prevention magazines. Compiling approximately 140 various ailments that we all have. Each topic is given several pages of suggestions. Since its Prevention magazine they do seem to be plausible, and not harmful in anyway. Often the text is accompanied by text doctors have written on their suggestions. Book covers topics for men, women, children, and even your pets. I found the book education, and the suggestions very helpful.

The third updated edition of a classic book on diabetes meal planning is a 'must' in any home diabetic's cookbook collection, as well as for public lending libraries. The best-seller has been completely revised to accommodate new eating and lifestyle habits, offering both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics and pre-diabetics and the newly diagnosed plenty of nutrition information and tips on healthy eating. From understanding portions and label information to menu planning, it holds everything needed to understand and modify a diet.

This book isn't just for diabetics; it's for anyone who wants to learn how to put together a nutritionally sound diet.

You'll come away understanding the Food Pyramid, daily requirements (for starches, carbs, protein, fats; with a explanation of difference between carbs and starches), calorie requirements, glycemix index & load, supplements, reading labels, portion sizes and simple ways to incorporate all this information into your daily life.

I don't understand why this isn't a dieting or nutrition bestseller. Absolutely outstanding

I thought it would be more precise and more receipe's.
Lots of good information however.

Make your own croutons, enjoy a tropical slushy, or serve cinnamon-honey eggnog. Each recipe includes the cost per serving, the diabetic exchange information and the preparation time.
It's not easy eating right for diabetes, but this book can be a big help.

This new book has many great shopping and meal planning tips as well as wonderful recipes from meats to sweets.

I heard about this book on a local radio show. It sounded good, so I ordered it and have been very pleased. I used the shopping tips in the book and saved $15 on my first trip to the grocery store! There are also 100 wonderful recipes and a week's worth of menus. The recipes are easy and taste great. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to eat right without spending lots of $$$.

I cannot say how much the content of this book has changed our lives. The diet is simple and very nutritious, but what are amazing are the statistics, the lives it has improved and/or saved. Amongst those this diet has saved, is my father who religiously has followed it and blesses Dr. Moerman. A definite recommendation not just to those with the monster disease, but to all who would like to improve their chances of not getting it.

This book does a very good job of providing anyone with cancer a highly effective, but very simple diet to build the immune system and effectively fight the disease. Dr. Moerman has over 60 years of results with animals and humans with this diet. In addition to the easy to follow diet, his recommendations on nutritional supplements are concise, simple, and again based on years of research and hundreds of patients. I highly recommend this diet for people who are sick as well as those who just want to stay healthy. Dr. Brian Bussanich

The weakest part of the book is the mixed units given on page 74 for the supplements. These range from tablespoons through milligrams to international units. How are all these related? What are the equivalents? In particular the doses for Iodine, Iron and Sulfur on page 50 do not make sense in the UK. Pharmasists can supply Iron Sulphate but Iodene and Sulfur are not available. This rather spoils an otherwise excellent book.

I would definately recommend anyone who has never used amazon.com to order a textbook to do so. It was extremely easy, no hassles & it arrived very quickly. I also messed up when I ordered and gave a po box instead of physical address but, they resolved it quickly without any glitches.

This book is great to me but my teacher says it's missing alot of information. However it is easy to read, and comprehend.

Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions looks and reads much like my college anatomy and physiology text with a good glossary and many colorful illustrations. It does not have pre- or post- tests, or chapter objectives or reviews. The book is easy on the eyes and easy to browse; not formatted as a crowded exhaustive reference.

The book is a well organized and indexed study of the most common human diseases (Cushings syndrome is represented, pheochromocytoma is not.) The text is arranged by the human body systems. The diseases of each system are presented first with discussion of symptoms and indications, then origin and cause, then methods of diagnosis, and finally treatment

The book's preface indicates it was written for "students of clinical medicine in the fields of medical assisting, medical transcription, insurance coding and other allied health programs who have had an introduction to basic anatomy and physiology of the human body and to medical terminology". I do agree there are prerequisites to the text; it is not a "home and family" reference. I am a degreed medical radiological technologist with some years of experience and wanted a quick reference to review the disease processes of some of the patients I do CTs on. The book is useful but not as complete as I would like. I will need to supplement it with an extensive, harder on the eyes and harder to browse reference.

This book is very informative,healthwise. Also, many good sounding recipes. Will be trying some soon. I feel that this book is a good book for anyone. Glad I bought it.

Love it! I don't have diabetes, however, I like to watch my carbs and this book helps me cook at home and feel good about what I'm eating.

The Healthy Carb Diabetes Cookbook is aimed at people who want to eat more healthily while explicitly avoiding high sugar and high starch meals. I certainly laud that mission! However, be aware that many of these pages come down to being eating ideas rather than actual recipes. For some cooks this is great! For others it might be a bit frustrating.

Pretty much every recipe is a single page. You get recipes broken out into breakfast, lunch, dinner, sides / appetizers and desserts. As with any recipe book, there are going to be recipes you adore and others you just aren't personally fond of. Some of us love scallops, some of us hate scallops. It's not a bad thing, it's a nice thing that we all have different taste buds.

So in that sense, we went more for a general style sense on the cookbook rather than praising or disliking specific recipes.

So first, many of the recipes are on the vague side. They include things like "get some frozen waffles and put berries on top". Or perhaps "get some frozen fish fillets - cook them according to the package - and put them on hamburger buns". Yes, other of the recipes are more complete, but sticking with the one-page theme they tend to have brief descriptions.

Because of these situations, we were extremely curious how the nutritional information was calculated. After all, if you use different pre-made frozen waffles, they can vary wildly as to their nutritional content. The same is true for tortillas, mentioned in another recipe. One recipe said the salt was optional - but was the salt included in the nutritional value, or not?

Now, that all being said, we really like a lot of the ideas presented here. It's not as much that they give you a "real recipe" to follow as much as they give you a cool idea. Mexican tuna salad? That sounds rather delicious! I don't need to follow their exact recipe - I can use their cool starting point and go from there. Cheesy cauliflower mash? I can easily do that, but not use their fat-free half-and-half.

However, I didn't really need their ice cream sandwich idea of "take a scoop of ice cream - put it between two low carb cookies" :) To me that doesn't deserve a full page of it's own. How about including several ice cream ideas all together, to make it a little more complete?

So, if you get stuck for ideas, then definitely use this book to help you get some new ones! Eating healthy is a VERY delicious way to live and you can eat delicious new things every day. If you already have a number of low carb cookbooks and have a variety of recipe ideas, then you probably can grab this at your library and just skim it for another idea or two.

The book came in plenty of time, New as said. Its a relief to have Amazon to order from. Safe, secure, low, fair prices! Im always checking here first!

This book was in perfect shape, like it just come from the printer. Great deal and way on time!

The book arrived on time and was very good I'm glad I bought new.The workbook that goes with this book was so late I had to return it. I was disappointed with that so order extra extra early.