"Outlive Your Diabetes" Tours the Net
Our Virtual Book Tour for the Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes Book has begun!
Have a look at our first stop over at Healthy Concerns.com. Elisa Camahort reports on "health care from the patient's point of view." She features an interview with Dr. Jackson on a variety of topics, including:
* Don't patients know the symptoms of pre-diabetes?
* Do insurers cover the basic health risk tests?
and
* What about vegetarian and vegan diets and diabetes?
Check it out!
Next stop is at the interesting and highly influential Health Care Blog by Matthew Holt. This expert on the in's and out's of the health care system was kind enough to invite me to shed some light on diabetes care and why our book represents a turning point.
It's a do-it-yourself (DIY) disease, after all.
Commenters have some interesting things to say:
"Physician-centered chronic disease care works poorly." Yup.
"... the actual quality measures right now mean very little in regards to the actual day-to-day care of a chronic disease. Just a big disconnect." Agreed!
"One thing this book won't do is change the junk food crap and industrial food crap causing diabetes." Weeelll...
I responded to that last one by saying we actually do include a big, fat chapter on dealing with food (pun sort-of intended). It's harder, of course, when people have grown up with unhealthy eating habits and are used to overindulging. But we're working to chip away at this epidemic with some very practical advice.
Also see my latest column on dLife.com: "Good Health by the Numbers: A DIY Approach." This pretty well sums it up. Stay tuned for more Virtual Book Tour.
