Understanding Type 2 Diabetes

• Fewer highs • Fewer lows • Better health

Diabetes is the world’s modern pandemic.

NZ has one of the highest diabetes rates among wealthy nations.

The nummber of people who developed diabetes in NZ grew 10% last year and now more than 208,000 people in NZ have diabetes.

 But it needn't mean a world of frustration, restrictions and complications. Most people with diabetes are able to live full, free and healthy lives. It just takes clear understanding and good management.

In Understanding Type 2 Diabetes, Professor Merlin Thomas of the renowned Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute clearly explains:

• What diabetes is and how it comes about.
• What is the right diet for someone with diabetes, and how to achieve it.
• How exercise can improve and maintain your health.
• The medical aspects of diabetes care, including the best ways to control your waistline, blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
• How to prevent and treat the major complications of diabetes.

Having diabetes is not easy. But its management needn’t be complex or complicated. With Understanding Type 2 Diabetes to guide you, you’ll soon realise that successfully managing diabetes is not only feasible but is also essential.

 Paperback | 234 x 153 mm | 288 Pages  NZ$32.99   Publication 11 March

About the author: 

Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute is an independent, internationally renowned medical research facility. Their work extends from the laboratory to wide-scale community studies with a focus on diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The Institute’s mission is to reduce death and disability from cardiovascular disease and diabetes; two highly prevalent and complex diseases that together are responsible for the most deaths and the highest health costs in the world. 

Professor Merlin Thomas is a clinician scientist working at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute. He works extensively with patients with diabetes and their doctors, as well as performing research in experimental models of diabetic complications. His work aims to identify new targets and advance new treatments to prevent, reverse and retard the development and progression of diabetic complications. He has written over two hundred papers, book chapters and books on diabetes management. His work on diabetic complications has received both local and international recognition including the Victorian Premier’s Award for Medical Research.