Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Cooking for Life or Diabetes mellitus

Cooking for Life: A Guide to Nutrition and Food Safety for the HIV-Positive Community

Author: Robert H Lehmann

One single factor can have life-or-death importance for someone with HIV: food. The right diet and nutrition can boost the immune system, and most important, maintain lean body mass. This groundbreaking, compassionate, and medically sound sourcebook is a food bible for the HIV community and their caregivers. Cooking for Life contains all the information you need about one of the safest, most effective, yet underutilized, weapons for staying well.

Publishers Weekly

Delivering soup-to-nuts nutritional education for those who have HIV or AIDS (and those who care for them), this no-nonsense guide offers substance rather than magic or promises of miracles. A comprehensive, comprehensible organization covers subjects ranging from food and water safety (food poisoning can be fatal to those who are immuno-suppressed) to how to gain weight and deal with nausea (ginger is a good bet). Lehman, a former executive chef of a food-delivery program for people with AIDS, consulted with physicians and nutritionists. In addition to the nutrition and food safety chapters, there is a section that explains cooking techniques and provides more than 35 easy-to-follow recipes to help combat wasting and loss of appetite. The book ends with several useful appendices in which one can find AIDS-specific meal programs, phone numbers for hotlines that provide help and referrals, a reprint of ACT UP's Standard of Care as a guideline for health management and a sample of a living will. Thought and care are evident throughout this volume, and it belongs, dog-eared and food-stained, in the kitchens and bookcases of people living with HIV or AIDS and those who care for them. (Jan.)

Library Journal

This work is much more than just a cookbook, as the title might suggest. It is a comprehensive guide to nutrition and food safety for HIV-positive people and their caregivers. The author, a longtime chef who began the nutrition program at the Metropolitan AIDS Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance (MANNA) in Philadelphia, has called upon the expertise of a team of advisers including a physician, a nurse who specializes in nutrition, and a registered dietitian. The result is a very thorough, solid, and practical guide, firmly grounded in sound nutritional principles. Included are sections on basic nutrition, safe food-handling practices, ways to deal with specific nutritional concerns of those living with HIV/AIDS, and, yes, recipes. Written in a friendly and accessible yet authoritative style, the book contains information helpful to everyone. Both informed readers and those working with HIV/AIDS patients will find it useful. Highly recommended.-Linda Gleason, Univ. of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey Lib., Newark



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Diabetes mellitus

Author: Sue K Milchovich

Updated to report on important breakthroughs in diabetes research and armed with the latest information about diet and drugs, this guide focuses on the everyday concerns of diabetics, teaching them how to balance diet, medication, and exercise for optimal health. Filled with illustrations, charts, tables, and worksheets, this is a proven, user-friendly guide for living with diabetes.
 
Con información sobre los últimos adelantos de investigación sobre la diabetes e información sobre la dieta y las drogas, esta guía se concentra en los problemas diarios de los diabéticos, enseñando al lector como balancear la dieta, el medicamento y el ejercicio para lograr buena salud.



Table of Contents:
Reconocimientos     vi
Prefacio     vii
Acerca de las Autoras     viii
Destrezas de Supervivencia     ix
El Circulo del Buen Control de la Diabetes     x
Diabetes Mellitus     1
Herencia     2
Virus y el Sistema Inmune     2
Nutricion y Obesidad     3
Tipos de Diabetes     4
Glucosa e Insulina     7
Hiperglucemia     13
Hipoglucemia     15
Inyeccion de Glucagon     21
Por Favor Lea Esta Historia     22
IDEAS-Entender Su Azucar en la Sangre     25
Rangos Ideales o Aceptables para el Azucar en la Sangre     28
La Dieta     29
Diabetes Tipo 1     31
Diabetes Tipo 2 y el Sobrepeso     31
El Horario     32
Cantidades de Alimentos/Calorias     33
Que Es un Peso Saludable?     34
Planificar las Comidas     37
Listas de Intercambio para la Planificacion de Comidas     42
Ejemplos de Planes de Comida     72
Alternativas para Endulzadores     78
Como Entender las Etiquetas de Alimentos     80
Alcohol     84
Consejos para Compras     85
Comer Fuera en Restaurantes     86
Grasa Saturada y Colesterol     95
Fibra en Su Dieta     98
Recursos para Planear las Comidas     103
Analisis Casero para Azucar en la Sangre     107
Cetonas y Cetoacidosis     115
Medicinas para Tratar La Diabetes     119
Medicinas Orales     120
Insulina     128
La Jeringuilla de la Insulina     133
Tecnica de Inyeccion     134
Analisis de Laboratorio     143
Azucar en la Sangre en Ayuno     143
Azucar en la Sangre Despues de Comer     143
Glicolhemoglobina o Hemoglobina Alc     144
Analisis de Tolerancia a la Glucosa Oral (ATG)     146
Ejercicio     147
Los Beneficios     147
Los Tipos     148
Las Partes de un Programa de Ejercicios     149
Que Tan Fuerte Ejercitarse     150
Cuan a Menudo Hacer Ejercicio     154
Cuando Hacer Ejercicio     154
Cuando No Hacer Ejercicio     155
Senales de Alerta para Dejar de Hacer el Ejercicio     155
Guias para Hacer Ejercicio     156
Fuentes de Informacion para Ejercicio     157
Dias de Enfermedad     159
La Higiene Personal     163
El Cuidado de la Piel     164
El Cuidado de los Pies     165
Identificacion Medica     167
El Estres     169
Emociones-Son Parte de Nosotros     173
Viajar con Diabetes     177
Recursos de Informacion Adicional Utiles     179
Complicaciones de la Diabetes     181
Enfermedades del Corazon y Vasos Sanguineos     182
Nervios     182
Los Ojos     183
Los Rinones     185
Los Dientes y Encias     186
Fumar     186
La Investigacion sobre la Diabetes     189
Organizaciones y Recursos     193
Direcciones de Paginas Web     195
Libros de Referencia     196
Television     197
Libros     197
Respuestas a la Prueba en Hiperglucemia e Hipoglucemia     201
Formularios para Planificar Comida     203
Bibliografia     207
Indice     211

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