The book is divided into sections on Dealing with the Onset of Diabetes, How Diabetes Affects Your Body, Managing Diabetes: The 'Thriving with Diabetes' Lifestyle Plan, and Special Considerations for Living with Diabetes. Each chapter is packed with facts and strategies on topics such as monitoring, battling complications, medications, diet, and exercise. If you skim, it's an introduction to diabetes; if you read it carefully, it's a textbook. Web surfers will appreciate the Dr. W.W. Web appendix, where Rubin lists many useful diabetes Web sites. (If you'd rather click than type, you can visit Rubin's Web site, where he offers links to all the diabetes sites.) Also included is a mini-cookbook of multiethnic recipes from noted restaurants, mostly in San Francisco (with the restaurant address, in case you want to order instead of cook). --Joan Price ....read more