Diabetes Dateline
Spring/Summer 2009
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Diabetes and Lifestyle
The Diabetes Lifestyle Book: Facing Your Fears & Making Changes for a Long & Healthy Life offers
practical suggestions for people coping with diabetes and its complications. Authors Jennifer A.
Gregg, Ph.D.; Glenn M. Callaghan, Ph.D.; and Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D., focus on the barriers to
comprehensive diabetes self-care—including barriers that may be self-inflicted—using a technique
called acceptance and commitment therapy.
The book includes a set of self-knowledge exercises to help readers gain skills and strategies to
push their health and life in positive directions. In 13 chapters, the book covers basic diabetes
information, acceptance of diabetes, motivation and persistence, the role of commitment, food
and nutrition, exercise and physical activity, medications, preventing and treating complications,
behavior change, and the role of communication.
The authors use numerous case examples, stories about real people, and practical suggestions
to implement everyday activities that help readers connect with the information provided, set
and achieve realistic goals, and feel empowered. Specific self-knowledge exercises are provided
throughout the book.
The 230-page book is available for $16.95 from New Harbinger Publications, Inc.,
5674 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland, CA 94609, 1–800–748–6273, www.newharbinger.com.
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NIH Publication No. 09–4562
August 2009
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