Recommended Books
Stop by here to find and buy some great books about life and diabetes, including how to:
live and cope, adjust your insulin settings, survive the medical community, help others and develop advocates, and find the humor in life with diabetes.

Good Reads: Tested, One Sniff, Greed on Trial
Happy New Year, oh Savvy Ones! Let's start the year off with some great book recommendations. Tested: How Top Achievers with Diabetes Have Succeeded by Tim Hoy ... an insightful book showing us how some very successful T1s have approached their own diabetes journey to...
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Savvy Books: What To Do When Your Partner Has Diabetes: A Survival Guide
Well, the title tagline says it all: A Survival Guide. "Here is a given: 100% of people do not like having diabetes. Most partners don't wish to burden anyone with their disease 1, especially not their significant other. Often, the "burden" becomes a...
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Savvy about What and How We Should Eat, Maybe?!
The blog post on the Gut Microbiome was your primer course. NOW, let talk about what you you should eat. You will not find the answers here. There are so many options and choices ... it can be very overwhelming. There have always been fad diets, as...
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From DiabetesMine: Type 1 Diabetes Caregiver Confidence Book Review AND Giveaway!
Check it out! My book review of Samantha Markovitz's first book, Type 1 Diabetes Caregiver Confidence, chock full of advice and tools to help caregivers (grandparents, babysitters, neighbors, etc.) understand the basics of diabetes, treatments, emergencies ......
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Savvy Books: Bright Spots & Landmines by Adam Brown
AMAZING! At the risk of repeating myself, AMAZING! I’ve been reading Adam’s column on diatribe … always interesting. But this is a masterpiece of wisdom, experience, tips and techniques in an easy-to-read, MUST READ resource for how to live as well as possibly with...
read moreOne Lump or Two? Things that Suck about being Diabetic
Haidee Soule Merritt is a "self-proclaimed" realist and cartoonist, doodling her life of personal struggles and experiences with Type 1 diabetes. Her little book of drawings couched in her "dark sense of humor." Some are funny, some are snarky, some are...
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Nicole Johnson (Miss America 1999): Young Adult Type 1 Diabetes Realities
This is a great little primer, short and packed to the brim with practical advice and first-hand stories of how to successfully manage the transition from dependence (life with Mom and Dad) to independence in life while living with Type 1 diabetes. Nicole...
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We Recommend This Book: Cheating Destiny
Cheating Destiny: Living with Diabetes by James S. Hirsch In Cheating Destiny, the best-selling author James S. Hirsch offers an incisive, sometimes surprising portrait of diabetes in America. Hirsch is intimately familiar with the disease: he has lived with type 1...
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A Great Read ~ SHOT: Staying Alive with Diabetes
SHOT: Staying Alive with Diabetes, by Amy F. Ryan, is an intimate portrait of a young woman's sudden transition to type 1 diabetes and a life of insulin dependence. Treatment for a routine infection one Monday morning yielded, with stunning speed, to a glucose...
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