Prediabetes, the leading risk factor for type 2 diabetes, afflicts approximately 84 million American adults. And the latest numbers from the CDC suggest that nearly 1 in 3 adults currently have either prediabetes or diabetes. These are alarming numbers, and finding out that you are that one out of three can be even more alarming. Shock, denial, and confusion are not uncommon reactions. But there is a flip side to learning you have prediabetes. It’s scary, but it also means you’ve caught the condition just in time, before it’s too late.
Prediabetes does not mean you will develop diabetes. There are actions you can take now to improve your health. The American Diabetes Association’s new book, Prediabetes: A Complete Guide: Your Lifestyle Reset to Stop Prediabetes and Other Chronic Illnesses
Taking an individualized approach to your lifestyle “reset,” this book will allow you to choose your own path to wellness, help you gain a greater sense of well-being, boost your confidence in your ability to maintain a healthful lifestyle, and potentially even help you reverse prediabetes and avoid type 2 diabetes and other chronic illnesses. You’ll be feeling better than you have in years!
Inside, you will learn how to:
- Identify your risks for developing type 2 diabetes
- Set personalized and meaningful behavioral goals
- Identify and build on your motivation for a lifestyle reset
- Create positive new habits
- Change eating habits for weight loss and greater insulin sensitivity
- Choose wholesome foods in the supermarket and when away from home
- Tweak your favorite recipes
- Reduce sedentary time
- Start or improve upon an exercise plan
- Reduce emotional eating
- Organize and track your progress with tools included in the book
- And much more!
Prediabetes can be scary, but it’s also a huge opportunity?an opportunity to “reset,” to improve your health, and to get yourself in better shape than ever. Let Prediabetes: A Complete Guide show you how!
About the Author:
Jill Weisenberger, MS, RDN, CDE, CHWC, FAND, is the author of Prediabetes: A Complete Guide: Your Lifestyle Reset to Stop Prediabetes and Other Chronic Illnesses. She is an internationally recognized nutrition and diabetes expert and certified health and wellness coach. She is the author of four books, including the best-selling Diabetes Weight Loss–Week by Week. Jill has worked as both a nutrition counselor and a diabetes educator in the hospital and research settings and now in private practice in Newport News, VA. For more information, please visit www.jillweisenberger.com or www.diabetes.org.
About the Book:
Prediabetes: A Complete Guide: Your Lifestyle Reset to Stop Prediabetes and Other Chronic Illnesses
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