Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series: Diabetes

Diabetes isn't just an illness anymore: it is an epidemic in American society that has increasingly been explained as an outgrowth of our lifestyle choices. This book explains what causes diabetes, how to prevent it—especially how to prevent it in loved ones like husbands and children—and most importantly how to live well once you've developed the condition. Most of us know what we should do; this book gives you the inspiration you need to actually follow through.

In the Healthy Living series, Chicken Soup for the Soul partners with the nation's top medical experts and organizations to give emotional support and important information to people with specific medical needs. The books feature approximately twelve positive, heartwarming stories from real people, followed by relevant expert medical advice that will positively impact the reader's life. Subjects such as diet, psychological issues, family relations, and alternative therapies exist side-by-side with traditional subjects such as understanding common medical terms, the effects of treatment options, and the doctor-patient relationship. Each book contains source notes and a resources section for more information and support.

Key Features

• Sales prove this concept—inspirational medical—works.

• Everyone now knows diabetes can be caused by lifestyle choices. This is the easiest and most basic book available on how and why to prevent it.

• Women worry about diabetes in their children and husbands, which makes them especially interested in quick tips on the topic.

• Living with diabetes entails many diet and lifestyle changes; this book puts those changes in a positive light and inspires readers to stick with their plan.

• Diabetes is a related subject to weight loss, the best selling book in the series.

• The Cleveland Clinic is widely known as one of the nation’s top medical institutes.

• Low price point makes this a perfect impulse purchase.

Author Highlights

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen are the #1 New York Times and USA Today best-selling authors of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Byron Hoogwerf, M.D., is a native of Minnesota who received his medical training at the University of Minnesota and the Hennepin County Medical Center. He spent four years on the faculty of the University of Minnesota before moving to the Cleveland Clinic in 1985, where he is a staff physician in the Department of Endocrinology. The Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 as a not-for-profit group practice, integrating clinical and hospital care with research and physician education. It has consistently been ranked among the top five "Best Hospitals in America" by U.S. News and World Report.