33 Best Diabetes Books

Richard Bernstein presents his approach to diabetes management, centered on blood sugar monitoring and a low-carbohydrate diet. The guide discusses treatment planning, insulin, medications, complications, exercise, and recipes for people with different forms of diabetes.

Gary Scheiner examines the daily concerns of people who use insulin to manage diabetes. The guide connects glucose monitoring, food, insulin-delivery methods, physical activity, stress, and illness with understanding the body's changing needs and organizing diabetes care.

Susan Weiner and Paula Ford-Martin offer daily tips addressing the practical and emotional demands of living with diabetes. The book discusses management routines, stress, burnout, holidays, special occasions, and seasonal challenges in a collection of brief entries.

The American Diabetes Association and Sheri Colberg introduce physical activity for people living with diabetes. Walking plans, strength and resistance exercises, goal setting, progress tracking, and discussion of dietary adjustments organize the guide's approach to fitness.

William Polonsky explores the emotional pressures that can undermine diabetes self-care. Questionnaires, worksheets, and self-assessments examine motivation, daily routines, relationships, and other stresses, helping readers reflect on obstacles and develop a personal plan of action.

Hope Warshaw examines restaurant eating through menu choices, preparation methods, portion sizes, and nutritional information. The guide surveys different cuisines and restaurant styles, discussing common dining pitfalls and ways to request meals that fit personal eating goals.

Ginger Vieira and Jennifer Smith guide readers through pregnancy with type 1 diabetes, from preparation and conception to birth and postpartum life. The month-by-month discussion focuses on changing insulin needs, blood sugar management, and personal experiences.

John Walsh and Ruth Roberts explain insulin pump use and continuous glucose monitoring for people with diabetes and health professionals. Topics include pump settings, bolus calculators, infusion sets, interpreting glucose data, and managing the practical demands of therapy.

Stephen Ponder describes his experience using continuous glucose information while living with type 1 diabetes. His surfing metaphor captures changing glucose patterns, connecting observations with meals, insulin, stress, activity, and the ongoing decisions involved in daily diabetes management.

Gary Scheiner explains carbohydrate counting through the foods and eating habits readers encounter in everyday life. The guide develops the rationale behind counting carbohydrates and moves from basic to more advanced techniques for estimating and tracking intake.

Riva Greenberg examines fifty common misconceptions about diabetes and contrasts them with explanations of care and daily life. Topics include food, insulin, medication, and complications, drawing on expert perspectives and experiences of people with diabetes.

Kerri Sparling draws on her own experience and conversations with patients and caregivers to explore life with diabetes. The book considers emotional adjustment, relationships, and everyday decisions while examining how diabetes fits within a fuller life.

Adam Brown shares approaches to living with diabetes across four areas: food, mindset, exercise, and sleep. Personal experiences, practical suggestions, and reflection questions encourage readers to identify helpful patterns as well as recurring difficulties in daily management.

James Hirsch blends memoir, reporting, history, and advocacy in an account of diabetes in America. His own diagnosis, his physician brother's experience, and his young son's illness frame an investigation of treatment, emotional burdens, and social costs.

Ginger Vieira examines the frustration and exhaustion that can accompany daily diabetes care. Her guide discusses realistic expectations, self-judgment, food, exercise, relationships, and renewed motivation, using personal insight and exercises to explore barriers to management.

Hope Warshaw explains meal planning for people living with diabetes, covering food groups, portion control, and everyday eating decisions. The guide discusses adapting familiar recipes, shopping, food preparation, and strategies for building manageable eating routines.

Neal Barnard presents his dietary approach to managing type 2 diabetes, emphasizing vegan meals and improved insulin sensitivity. Recipes, exercise guidance, progress tracking, and troubleshooting explain the program he proposes for reducing the disease's effects.

Leighann Calentine draws on parenting a daughter with type 1 diabetes to discuss family life and caregiving. Topics include routines, school, food, stress, support networks, and helping children participate in ordinary activities alongside managing their condition.

Scott Benner recounts life as a stay-at-home father, exploring household work, marriage, gender roles, and parenting mishaps. His daughter's diagnosis of type 1 diabetes becomes part of a humorous and personal portrait of family life.

Moira McCarthy explores the challenges of parenting a teenager with diabetes, including hormonal changes, growth spurts, and shifting emotions. Drawing on her experience as a parent, she discusses supporting young people as diabetes becomes part of increasingly independent lives.

Chuck Eichten draws on years of living with diabetes to argue for progress over perfection. Through personal lessons, humor, and visual presentation, he explores how small improvements and learning from mistakes can change the experience of managing the condition.

Joel Fuhrman presents his nutrient-dense dietary approach to diabetes, arguing for a greater role for food choices in its prevention and management. The book explains his proposed eating plan and how he adapts its principles to individual needs.

Gretchen Becker guides newly diagnosed readers through the first year of living with type 2 diabetes. The book addresses coming to terms with diagnosis, food, exercise, testing routines, treatment options, insurance, and other practical and emotional adjustments.

Shelby Kinnaird introduces carbohydrate counting for people living with diabetes. The pocket guide explains how carbohydrates relate to blood sugar and presents approaches to estimating portions, planning meals, balancing a plate, choosing snacks, and navigating restaurant food.

Paul Rosman and David Edelman present a four-step approach to understanding patterns in blood sugar. Their guide examines food alongside physical activity, stress, pain, sleep, and other daily circumstances, encouraging readers to reflect on their own diabetes experiences.

Daniele Hargenrader combines personal stories and motivational guidance for people living with diabetes and their loved ones. She emphasizes choice, self-acceptance, and community as ways to rethink the condition and develop a more confident relationship with its challenges.

Gary Scheiner surveys developments in diabetes technologies, treatments, and research available when the book was written. Drawing on his professional and personal experience, he explains their relevance to self-care for people with diabetes and those supporting them.

Rachel Zinman shares her experience of a diabetes diagnosis and the role yoga played in her response. The book introduces yoga and Ayurveda practices that she presents as support for managing stress, adapting movement, and exploring personal well-being.

Brandy Barnes and Natalie Strand explore the experiences of women living with diabetes. Their guide addresses emotional well-being, hormones, relationships, exercise, travel, and work, combining personal perspectives with discussion of the demands of daily management.

Cheryl Alkon combines personal experience, patient stories, and expert interviews in a guide to pregnancy with pre-existing diabetes. She covers preparation, choosing a medical team, pregnancy, delivery, early parenthood, and challenges including infertility and pregnancy loss.

Young dancer Zippy is chosen for a leading role in her first ballet performance, then receives a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. The story follows her efforts to understand the condition while pursuing her love of dance.

Animal characters open their bags to reveal tools used in everyday diabetes routines, including glucose meters and insulin pumps. This picture book introduces young children with type 1 diabetes to familiar activities involved in managing the condition.

Nicole Johnson and Lorraine Stiehl examine life as the partner of someone with diabetes. The guide discusses support, communication, food, travel, mental health, and intimacy, encouraging couples to recognize both partners' concerns while deciding what help feels appropriate.