ReStore What is the #1 complaint of people with diabetes?  Take a guess because you either have diabetes or know someone with diabetes.

The answer is fatigue!  In a recent survey, 85% of people with diabetes complained that they live with constant fatigue that prevents them from getting through their day and being who they really are.  Are you one of them?

Here's another surprising fact.  Do you know that 69% of people with diabetes said they spend $3 to $5 per day on coffee, colas, and energy drinks even though they know that caffeine, sugar, carbs, and stimulants are not healthy options for them.

This article lists a number of the many monitors available on the market today

FreeStyle Freedom Lite (Abbott Diabetes Care) The latest FreeStyle meter has larger buttons and a yellow port for strips intended to make usage easier for people with vision impairment. The Freedom Lite doesn't require coding; maintains a log of 7-, 14-, and 30-day glucose averages; stores 400 glucose readings in its memory; and uses the same test strips as the FreeStyle Lite monitor.

50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life: And the 50 Diabetes Truths That Can Save It

By Riva Greenberg

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The Real-Life Guide to Diabetes: How to Handle Everyday Emergencies--And More

By Hope Warshaw, Joy Pape

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Product Description

An illustrated, four-color guide to managing diabetes in the real world

People with diabetes are faced with the challenge of trying to fit their disease into their lives, not fitting their lives into diabetes. This book aims to give you the tools to confront real-life situations with a healthy approach to diabetes self-management.

The Real-Life Guide to Diabetes is a lavishly illustrated guide that shows you all the ins-and-outs of diabetes management. Packed with tips and solutions from real people with diabetes, as well as clinicians and diabetes educators, this book also features handy checklists for self-assessment and resources for more information.

The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed

By Gretchen Becker

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Product Description

After Gretchen Becker was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1996, she educated herself on every aspect of this chronic condition — by reading medical and scientific books and journals, talking with doctors and listening to her own body. In 2001, she marshaled everything she had learned as a "patient-expert" into the first edition of this book, which she has now completely updated and revised. The First Year®—Type 2 Diabetes uniquely guides you step-by-step through your first year with diabetes, walking you through everything you need to learn and do each day of your first week after diagnosis, each subsequent week of the first month, and each subsequent month of the crucial first year. In clear, concise, accessible language, Becker covers a wide range of practical, medical, and lifestyle issues, beginning with coming to terms with your diagnosis and then moving on to subjects including: Choosing the diet that is best for you The role of exercise Daily blood-glucose testing routines and understanding lab tests Medications and supplements Networking with others Insurance issues Traveling and socializing

Diabetes Burnout: What To Do When You Can't Take it Anymore

By William Polonsky

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Product Description

Diabetes Burnout is an interactive book that addresses the emotional issues that contribute to poor glycemic control and provides guidance to overcoming the barriers to good self-care. Worksheets help readers assess their current state of motivation and establish a successful plan of action.

Blood Sugar 101: What They Don't Tell You About Diabetes

By Jenny Ruhl

Product Description

Based on the award winning Bloodsugar101.com web site, this book explains what peer-reviewed research published in top medical journals has to say about: What is a normal blood sugar? How does diabetes develop? What really causes diabetes? What blood sugar levels cause complications? Must you deteriorate? What diet is right for you? How can you make that diet work? What medications are safe? What supplements lower blood sugar? Written in clear and understandable language, this book provides all the tools needed to understand how blood sugar works and achieve blood sugar health.

Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes without Drugs

Until Dr. Barnard’s scientific breakthrough, most health professionals believed that once you developed diabetes, you were stuck with it—and could anticipate one complication after another, from worsening eyesight and nerve symptoms to heart and kidney problems. But as this groundbreaking work reveals, this simply is not true. In a series of studies—the most recent funded by the National Institutes of Health—Dr. Barnard has shown that it is possible to repair insulin function and reverse type 2 diabetes. By following his scientifically proven, life-changing program, diabetics can control blood sugar three times more effectively than with the standard diet; and cut back on and in some cases eliminate medications while reducing the risk of diabetes complications.

Choose Your Foods: Exchange Lists for Diabetes

This updated edition includes a wider variety of food and beverages and more culturally diverse choices. Combination and fast foods choices have also been expanded. Includes tips on exercise, eating healthy in restaurants, reading food labels, and includes a glossary of diabetes-related terms.

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Disease Management Investigator (DMI) is a powerful and flexible product that has been developed for diabetes, chronic heart disease (CHD) and obesity.

Exercise can help control your weight and lower your blood sugar level. It also lowers your risk of heart disease, a condition that is common in people who have diabetes. Exercise can also help you feel better about yourself and improve your overall health.

If you gained extra weight you should know that your metabolism is not the same one that kept you lean before. You should understand that your new metabolism utilizes your current life style to store excess fat, and you need to modify your life style to prevent it from doing that, and to do that you should understand your metabolism and your food.

Swallowing diet pills or starving your body to slow down your metabolism and lose weight, is not the solution to your overweight problem, since they work temporarily, do harm to your body, and may be far from the right basics of weight loss.