Publications

Conquest of Diabetes by Diet and Exercise

Fifth Edition, 2019
Hemraj B. Chandalia and Sonal Chandalia

The Conquest of Diabetes by Diet and Exercise aims to empower people with diabetes and their care-givers with knowledge and information to optimize their health and live happily with diabetes.

With more than four decades of clinical experience, we feel that the detailed outline on diet and an indoor exercise plan provides the necessary understanding for a patient to manage diabetes on a day-to-day basis.

Different aspects of the book cover a spectrum form the relationship of obesity and Type 2 diabetes to balanced diets, low fat cooking methods and fat substitutes. Additionally, it describes newer non-calorigenic sweeteners, that a diabetic can avail of the same gastronomic pleasures as non-diabetics. Aspartame and sucralose have been critically reviewed in this edition. A Diabetes Prevention Program study has clearly shown the importance and role of life-style intervention in the prevention of Type 2 diabetes. The book provides insight on how to achieve this goal as well as covers the gamut of new anti-diabetic drugs, both oral and injectable type.

In the endeavor to make the book reader-friendly, interesting features have been added in the book. For example, box inserts which consist of few very pertinent issues and controversies; a glossary which contains a list of scientific and technical words. These appear throughout the book as small inserts. We hope that people with diabetes and also health-care professionals find this book useful.

If we are instrumental in changing the life-style of a large number of people with diabetes or susceptible to diabetes in the community, we would consider our mission fulfilled.