Hi!
I often get advice about reading "Using insulin" book. Do you think it is worth buying (I need to order it from US, I am in Sweden) although it is from 2003?
I have copies of Diabetes solution and think like pancreas, last editions.
ANother question - what do you think about
1. "The diabetes diet" book? by Bernstein
2. "Guide to carb counting?" by M.S. Gary Scheiner M.S.
Others I should read?
I've read " The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living:..."
recently :-)
I highly recommend either of the books by Walsh, either "Using Insulin" or "Pumping Insulin". If you are trying to save money and would like a more recent printing, it isn't necessary to buy "Using Insulin", even if you are injecting and not pumping. I don't know about Sweden, but you can buy the "Pumping Insulin" book used very cheaply here in the US, and it contains the same information (plus a small amount that will not be relevant to you since it is specifically about using your pump).
The "diabetes diet" book by Bernstein is not supposed to be very good since the recipes leave a lot to be desired. His philosophy of eating no more than 30g carb per day is much better described in his "Diabetes Solution" book. That book is also available very cheaply if you buy it used (I paid $1 for mine). I consider his work to be much farther out on the fringes - it has some information useful to the average diabetic but is really intended to be used by those people who are interesting in following his extreme diet.
I haven't read Scheiner's "Guide to carb counting", though it looks like it is primarily a list of food nutrients which can be gotten for free online. Scheiner's other book, "Think Like a Pancreas" is good and worth having, though the information in it is also contained in the Walsh books so there is no need to buy it if you already have the Walsh book.
Besides Walsh, my other favorite book is from your part of the world - "Type 1 Diabetes" by Ragnar Hanas. This book covers everything, and is the source book that I am repeatedly referring back to.
Gary Scheiner's book "Think like a Pancreas" is amazing. Somehow he makes diabetes fun... I don't know your age, but if you are a teen like mysrlf, Type 1 Teens by Korey Hood is also good...
I have to take just a tiny exception to your comments about the Bernstein "Diabetes Solution" book. While it's true that his diet recommendations are exceptionally severe and certainly not for everyone, the book also contains a great deal of information on basic management and control that is not directly concerned with diet per se. The introductory chapter describing what diabetes is and its fundamental physiology is the best I have found anywhere.
The Walsh and Scheiner books are quite excellent, alone or in any combination.
The key to getting the best value from any book is to take what is useful to you and leave the rest.
Hi Tabacblond!
I live in France and have ordered the books from Amazon - France with no shipping charges. It's great. (I've also ordered others on my kindle which is cheaper and easy too.) I love Gary Scheiner, "Think like a pancreas" and it has really helped me a lot. I went ahead and ordered the guide to carb counting - it is NOT a list of carbs but gives some BASICS on how to count carbs, estimate carbs,subtract fiber, read labels etc. I think it would be good for someone who is BEGINNING to count carbs but not really essential. Good reading!
Gary wrote another book recently. I bought kindle version but it seems like a lot information is the same as in "think like"
He’s new book called Until there is a cure
You can see a lot of the stuff that John Walsh wrote in 'Using Insulin' and 'Pumping Insulin' on his web site http://www.diabetesnet.com/john-walsh-pa-cde
We bought Think Like a Pancreas although I haven't read it yet. I have bought other books such as glycemix index and gives a lot of useful info on foods which are on the low to high of the glycemic index.
I like "Think Like a Pancreas" a lot, I found it a bit more readable, maybe a bit more engaging than "Pumping Insulin" although I liked them both a ton when I got them and read them about the same time. I also liked Ginger Vieira's "Your Diabetes Science Experiment" quite a bit. It's a bit shorter but has similar approaches to figuring things out, with a bit less "charty" approach.
i really enjoyed chuck eitkens "the book of better". its some onfo, some humour, quite good all round.