The Smart Woman’s Guide to Diabetes
Amy Stockwell Mercer
Of the 17 million Americans who have diabetes, approximately 9.3 of that number are women. And it appears that number of women with diabetes is increasing each year. Diabetes is particularly difficult for women in large part due to the hormonal changes associated with the menstrual cycle, changes that affect blood sugar levels. As a consequence women with diabetes have higher rates of chest pain, heart attack, coronary heart disease and stroke. And women with diabetes face special challenges.
The Smart Woman’s Guide to Diabetes provides advice, tips, and research from a diverse community of women living with diabetes. It provides practical insight and references for the optimal management of diabetes from women living with the disease as well as doctors, nurses, nutritionists, and educators. Personal anecdotes from nearly one hundred women throughout the book reveal both the good and the bad of living with diabetes, including the frustration, sense of shame, sense of isolation as well as the capacity for strength and the opportunity for growth.
The Smart Woman’s Guide to Diabetes lets you know that you are not alone but rather it will make you feel like you are sitting in your favorite coffee shop with your friends who share the same disease.
Special Features of Smart Woman’s Guide to Diabetes include:
- Personal anecdotes on a wide variety of topics are in every chapter
- Authentic advice from women living with diabetes
- Expert tips from female endocrinologists, educators, and nutritionists who are also living with diabetes
- Comprehensive in scope this books examines all the challenges and issues women with diabetes face
- Research and statistics are provided for each topic
There’s nothing quite like an authoritative author for a topic like diabetes. Amy Stockwell Mercer sums up her credentials in her introduction: “It’s been 25 years since I was diagnosed, and I am now the mother to three healthy boys.” Diagnosed at age 14, about six months after her younger sister, Stockwell Mercer enlists the wisdom and experiences of many other women living with diabetes to offer guidance and encouragement for women with diabetes who might feel alone or isolated or just not understood. You’ll learn from women diagnosed as kids and diagnosed as adults who have found ways to live well with diabetes. The Smart Woman’s Guide to Diabetes isn’t a medical guide to caring for diabetes. It’s more of an emotional guide. One chapter heading sums it up best: Building the Confidence to Live Well. Highly Recommended for every woman with diabetes.
Published by Demos Health. Paperback, 236 pages. $16.95 ISBN 1936303132.2012
