Description
Would you like to learn what foods will make your blood sugar rise and how high? Wherever you are, whatever meal you eat, the answer is in the amount of carbohydrate you eat.

Carb counting unlocks the secrets of blood sugar levels and helps your client avoid the dangers of blood sugar that is too high or too low. The Complete Guide to Carb Counting, 2nd edition, provides you with the knowledge and the tools to put carb counting into practice. Whether you choose to do basic carb counting or move onto advanced, you'll learn why carb counting helps you manage your blood sugar, the amount of carb to eat how to count the carb in meals, and how to count carbs using food labels, restaurants menus, and your eyes, too.

It is THE meal planning system that really helps you no matter how you manage your diabetes. The updated edition of the Complete Guide to Carb Counting includes:
Everything you need to know about carbs
Carb counts for everyday foods
More stories from people using carb counting
Carb counting for insulin pump users
Strategies for eating out
A whole week of meal plans
Recordkeeping forms
More

Take the mystery out of blood sugar control-start counting carbs today!

Level: Intermediate.
ISBN: 1580402038
ISBN-13: 9781580402033
Format: Paperback, 256pp
Publisher: American Diabetes Association
Edition Number: 2
Pub date: 2004

Content
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Why Count Carbs?
Chapter 2. What's Carb Counting?
Chapter 3. Are You Ready to Begin Basic Carb Counting?
Chapter 4. How May Meal and Snacks to Eat?
Chapter 5. Begin Counting
Chapter 6. Protein, Fat, and Alcohol Count, Too
Chapter 7. Weigh and Measure Foods: A Key to Your Success
Chapter 8. The Food Label Has the Facts
Chapter 9. Convenience Foods and Recipes: How to Figure, How to Manage
Chapter 10. Restaurant Meals; How to Figure, How to Manage
Chapter 11. Blood Glucose Pattern Management: A Key to Fine Tuning Your Control
Chapter 12. Ready, Willing, and Able to Progress?
Chapter 13. Advanced Carb Counting: All the Ins and Outs
Chapter 14. Common Questions and Answers about Advanced Carb Counting
Chapter 15. Cornerstones
Appendixes
1. Carb Counts of Everyday Foods
2. Carb Counting Resources
3. Record Keeping Forms

Book author
Hope S. Warshaw, MMSc, CDE, BC-ADM, is a nationally recognized expert on healthy eating and diabetes. She is the author of numerous books including ADA's Guide to Healthy Restaurant Eating, 2nd ed. (ADA, 2002) and Diabetes Meal Planning Made Easy, 2nd ed. (ADA, 2000).

Karmeen Kulkarni, MS, RD, CDE, BC-ADM, works at the Diabetes Center at St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City. She has had great success for 15 years using the carb counting system with her clients who have diabetes.

Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
5190 Diabetes mellitus