Complete Guide to Carb Counting: How to Take the Mystery Out of Carb Counting and Improve Your Blood Glucose Control

Hope S. Warshaw · Karmeen Kulkarni

May 2011 · American Diabetes Association

About this ebook

The completely revised Complete Guide to Carb Counting, 3rd edition, by the American Diabetes Association, provides you with the knowledge and the tools to put carbohydrate counting into practice. Rewritten and reorganized to introduce and explain carb counting concepts as you'll need them in your diabetes care plan, you'll learn why carb counting helps you manage your blood sugar, the amount of carb to eat, how to count the carbohydrates in meals, and how to count carbs using food labels, restaurant menus, and your eyes, too. This is THE meal planning system every carb-counting person with diabetes needs to manage their blood glucose.

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It does not contain enough practical advise.

About the author

Hope S. Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE, BC-ADM is a nationally recognized expert on healthy eating and meal planning with diabetes. She is the author of many ADA books, including the recently published Real-Life Guide to Diabetes, American Diabetes Association Guide to Healthy Restaurant Eating, and the Diabetes Food and Nutrition Bible. She is on the board of the American Association of Diabetes Educators (11,000 members) and resides in Alexandria, Va.

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. In 2006, she was ADA President, Health Care & Education.