nd now for something completely different.
Just when I thought that I couldn’t possibly read a book about diabetes with a totally new approach, along comes one that is not primarily about diet, exercise, or medication — the three standard components of diabetes treatment. Richard Surwit’s Mind-Body Diabetes Revolution adds a fourth component — mental diabetes. He is vice chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and chief of the division of medical psychology at Duke University Medical Center.
He deals first with stress, which can raise blood glucose and may well be the most important mental factor. The other two are depression, which is well known to be correlated with diabetes, and then with hostility, including cynicism, anger, and aggression.
Most people with diabetes probably know stress, depression, and hostility all too well. If any of them are your regular companions, you might well study this book with special concentration on the two mind-body techniques that Richard Surwit advocates — progressive muscle relaxation and cognitive behavior therapy. If you apply one or both of these techniques, you will almost certainly be rewarded with better control over your diabetes.
Originally published in a 2004 hard cover edition,
Marlowe & Company published this 267-page trade paperback in September 2005 for $14.95. The ISBN is 1-56924-363-8.
[As of 04Oct2005, this book is available at
Amazon
for $10.17.]
