In Control: A Guide for Teens with Diabetes [Paperback]

Jean Betschart (Author)

Book Description

This invaluable guide gives 12-to 18-year olds the facts they need to make the right choices about their health.

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From the Back Cover

How to Make the Best Choices About Your Health Finally, a book about diabetes that you’ll actually want to read! This helpful and highly readable guide explains everything you need to know to get you through the teen years. Straightforward and current, this one-of-a-kind book tackles the issues and answers the questions you may face, including:

• Is it time for me to handle more of my diabetes care?
• What can I do about mood changes?
• What about junk food or fast food?
• When should I tell my boyfriend or girlfriend about my diabetes?
• Does diabetes affect my sexuality?
• How do I choose, talk to, and negotiate with my medical team?

"Practical, meaningful, and highly enjoyable. There are not many books out there for teenagers with diabetes. In Control fills a gap and really meets that need." —JoAnn Ahern, RN, MSN, CDE Pediatric Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist, Yale University • Books to Fund a Cure • A portion of this book’s proceeds will go to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, a not-for-profit voluntary health agency, whose primary objective is to support and fund research to find the cause, cure, treatment, and prevention of diabetes and its complications. Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Library Illustrator P.S. Mueller’s cartoons appear in more than 30 major city weekly newspapers throughout the country and in such magazines as Harper’s, Health, The Esquire Gentleman, Hippocrates, and The Utne Reader. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Chronimed Publishing (January 7, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156561061X
• ISBN-13: 978-1565610613
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,834,987 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, July 5, 2003

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"happydiabetic" (Pennsylvania United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In Control: A Guide for Teens with Diabetes (Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Library) (Paperback)

This book should be read by all teens with diabetes. I picked up this book in the Endo's office and thought it was going be a dumb boring book but once I started reading it I couldnt stop. From Topics from Food to Driving and others , This Book has things Teens With Diabetes Will need

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, October 17, 2007

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This review is from: In Control: A Guide for Teens with Diabetes (Paperback)

This book is great for teens. It was easy to read & caught the interest of my teen. She actually read it. They even throw in some good humor!