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Crowe and Stachowiak explain the most important self-management skills for dealing with any chronic illness. A realistic, positive, and assertive attitude combined with solid health information is the best defense in managing one's optimal health. Their well-written, tangible, and achievable advice is outstanding. An essential title for diabetes patients, their families, and health-care workers. -Library Journal <br> They aren't kidding when they titled it a manifesto. Julie and Lynn have written that book you wish existed at the time of diagnosis. No topic is excluded; they truly get into the grit of daily living with this complex disease, all the while still making it humanly possible. Every diabetic, newly diagnosed or a lifelong veteran, needs to read this book. We can all learn something from their wisdom and practical guidance. -Emily Berthold, Editor, The Misadventures of Peabody, bumbeta.blogspot.com <br> Written with passion and authority, The Diabetes Manifesto heartedly reframes diabetes self-management from victim to enlightened victor...the person with diabetes commits to strive for a little better every day using the tools detailed in the book, the bottom line is that you can have diabetes and a long, healthy, emotionally and socially rich, and purpose-filled life. The Diabetes Manifesto is a volume of good news for people with diabetes, their families, and social networks! -Leandris C. Liburd, PhD, author of Diabetes and Health Disparities, Community-Based Approaches for Racial and Ethnic Populations <br> Together with co-author Julie Stachowiak, Crowe urges readers--from the newly diagnosed to those who have lived with diabetes for some time, to truly become their own experts, to be assertive about what is needed, and to really take charge of their own diabetes for the healthiest outcome, both physically and emotionally. Bravo to The Diabetes Manifesto for sharing the tools needed to live with diabetes so that a person can have asi

Crowe and Stachowiak explain the most important self-management skills for dealing with any chronic illness. A realistic, positive, and assertive attitude combined with solid health information is the best defense in managing one's optimal health. Their well-written, tangible, and achievable advice is outstanding. An essential title for diabetes patients, their families, and health-care workers. -Library Journal <br> They aren't kidding when they titled it a manifesto. Julie and Lynn have written that book you wish existed at the time of diagnosis. No topic is excluded; they truly get into the grit of daily living with this complex disease, all the while still making it humanly possible. Every diabetic, newly diagnosed or a lifelong veteran, needs to read this book. We can all learn something from their wisdom and practical guidance. -Emily Berthold, Editor, The Misadventures of Peabody, bumbeta.blogspot.com <br> Written with passion and authority, The Diabetes Manifesto hearted

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Lynn Crowe currently works within the diabetes medical industry and has a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling. She was diagnosed with type 1 Diabetes when she was 12. She began her quest to help young people with diabetes as the Director of Youth Services of the American Diabetes Association of Southfield, Michigan. Julie Stachowiak, PhD, is the Guide to multiple sclerosis for About.com. She writes articles for the website (ms.about.com) the goal of which is to build a comprehensive Internet source of MS information. In that role she has been called by Josie Byzek of New Mobility Magazine ""the best MS writer on the web.""

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