Real-Life Guide to Diabetes: Practical Answers to Your Diabetes Problems [Paperback]

Hope S. Warshaw R.D. (Author), Joy Pape RN (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 11, 2009

Here's everything you need to know about diabetes in a one-of-a-kind book packed with information you won't find anywhere else. Using an easy-to-search format, Real-Life Guide to Diabetes lets you find the answers to your most pressing questions quickly and easily. Other books give you complex systems to manage your diabetes, but those rarely work in real life - it's time for a more realistic approach.

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About the Author

Hope S. Warshaw, M.MSc., R.D., C.D.E., BC-ADM is a registered dietitian, certified diabetes educator and board certified advanced diabetes manager. She is the author of Guide to Healthy Restaurant Eating (978-1- 58040-270-5 • 1-58040-270-4) and Diabetes Meal Planning Made Easy (978-1-58040-251-4 • 1-58040-251-8).

Joy Pape, R.N., B.S.N., C.D.E., W.O.C.N., C.F.C.N. is a registered nurse and certified diabetes educator with more than 25 years of experience and a former medical producer of a TV show dedicated to diabetes. Currently, Joy writes for several consumer magazines and websites and is the nurse editor of an internet-based global diabetes education program for healthcare providers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 292 pages
• Publisher: American Diabetes Association; 1 edition (March 11, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158040314X
• ISBN-13: 978-1580403146
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #26 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Diets & Weight Loss > American Diabetes Association

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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Living With Diabetes, May 8, 2009

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Landileigh Nelson (Napa, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Real-Life Guide to Diabetes: Practical Answers to Your Diabetes Problems (Paperback)

I remember the day I was first diagnosed with Diabetes. I immediately went to my local bookstore to get information. There were books for Type 1, and Type 2, counting carbs, cooking, and baking with sugar substitutes. But there wasn't a book to answer all of the questions that were popping into my head. A book for "dummies" gave me very general information, no different than the small brochure that my general practitioner gave to me. I needed much more information than that.

Two years after my diagnosis, such a book has been written. REAL-LIFE GUIDE TO DIABETES: Practical Answers To Your Diabetes Problems. Hope Warshaw and Joy Pape are the authors of this amazing book. Hope and Joy are both Certified Diabetes Educators with tons of experience and have been the authors of many books on Diabetes care. Joy is also a Type 1, herself, so she knows the difficulties of living with diabetes (and I mean LIVING).

The book is fresh, and new. It isn't laid out like any diabetes book you've read in the past, it flows freely from one subject to another. With the information in boxes, it is easy and fun to read! Full of color pictures, tips, and solutions. Sections included are: Build Your Strong Foundations, Create Your Real-Life Diabetes Plan, and When Life Happens. These are LIVING with Diabetes subjects, and truly the information that is needed for Today's Diabetes.

My favorite part was the Wonder? areas. I wish that I'd had these practical answers to all the questions that had been running through my head when I was first diagnosed. These are in boxes throughout the book, just in the right place you are looking for them. But, this book isn't just for the recently diagnosed, as someone who has lived with Diabetes for the last two years, I was able to answer questions that I had not even thought of. "Dealing with Diabetes while on Vacation" comes to mind right away as one of those subjects. I also am putting the "Losing Weight and Keeping it Off" to some good use!


The beauty of REAL-LIFE Guide to Diabetes is in the simplicity, but it's approach isn't dumbed down to make you feel like you are an idiot. Just the right answers in the right tone, to make you comfortable in learning more about the disease you are living with.

I will recommend REAL-LIFE GUIDE TO DIABETES: Practical Answers To Your Diabetes Problems by Hope Warshaw and Joy Pape to EVERYONE I know!

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Winner!!!!!!, May 15, 2009

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Susanne M. Acosta "Diabetes Vanquisher" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Real-Life Guide to Diabetes: Practical Answers to Your Diabetes Problems (Paperback)

Hope S. Warshaw and Joy Pape hit the ball out of the park with the following book: Real-Life Guide to Diabetes. Every sentence is a jewel of information. Having learned that I have type 2 diabetes for three years now, I have read many, many books on diabetes covering every diabetic topic that is out there. To get to the information I was looking for, I have had to read chapter after chapter after chapter and even after all that reading, I still did not get exactly what I wanted to know.

In the Real-Life Guide to Diabetes, every page is filled with vital information that every diabetic needs to know. There is not one wasted space in the whole book. It is an easy read with tips and tactics, an orange box Wonder question section, Red Flag boxes of vital information that we need to pay attention to and a green box Psst... section that I refer to as helpful hints.

The Real-Life Guide to Diabetes is colorful to the eye, friendly to the diabetic spirit, and one glance through will make you want to take the book home and read it from cover to cover.

When I was half way through the Real-Life Guide to Diabetes book, it dawned on me that this book really is a diabetes 101 course because everything that diabetics need to know is between the pages of this book. Nothing was left out. It is all here in one book. The Real-Life Guide to Diabetes is a comprehensive diabetic reference book that will help all diabetics live the best lives they can. You will not be sorry you bought this book.

We all need to make time for our good health because if we don't make time for our good health our lack of good health will definitely make time for us.

Let the Real-Life Guide to Diabetes help you live a healthy good life for years to come.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All you need to know about diabetes in one place, June 7, 2009

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Janet Musick "editor-writer" (Columbia, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Real-Life Guide to Diabetes: Practical Answers to Your Diabetes Problems (Paperback)

The Real-Life Guide to Diabetes by Hope S. Warshaw and Joy Pape doesn't take its name lightly. It's chock full of practical, useful information you can integrate into your daily life right now. I've had diabetes for nearly six years and, even though I read everything I can about the disease, no one source has EVERYTHING you need to know all in one place. This book does. From exercise to medication to nutrition, it covers all the bases and then some. You have to think about what you're going to eat, when you're going to exercise, and when you're going to take your medicines. This book will show you how to create an optimum life plan and how to deal with things that come up that can wreak havoc with your plan, such as illness or travel.

The design of the book makes it easy to read. Each chapter has a "What You'll Learn" section right at the beginning. Scattered throughout the guide are sections like "By the Numbers," which provides important statistics; "Wonder," which answers questions about diabetes; and "Tips and Tactics," which tells you how to deal with many aspects of diabetes in plain language that's easy to understand. There's even a "Red Flag" section that provides warnings and cautions people with diabetes need to know.

This book is so comprehensive that you'll never have to search for most of the information again. I hope the American Diabetes Association and the two authors update the information regularly.

I think the best thing about this book is that it gives people with diabetes hope - hope that, even though they've been diagnosed with diabetes, they can still live a pretty normal life and reduce complications of diabetes.