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Newmarket Books by Jane L. Delgado, Ph.D., M.S.

The Buena Salud Guide for a Healthy Heart
The Buena Salud Guide to Diabetes and Your Life
The Latina Guide to Health: Consejos and Caring Answers

[all available in English and Spanish]

The mission of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health (the Alliance) is to improve the health of Hispanic communities and work with others to secure health for all. This has been a major challenge because although 1 out of every 6 people in the United States is Hispanic, too often the research, analysis, and recommendations do not address Hispanic lives. As information emerges about Hispanic health, it is clear that to achieve the best health outcomes for all, we need a different approach to health care in our communities. Besides providing the best health information, we need to create a new way to think about health that blends the strengths of the Hispanic community with the latest medical and technological advances.

The Buena Salud series is designed to make that happen. Each book identifies the key factors that define a health concern, the changes that each of us needs to consider making for ourselves and our family, the most up-to-date information to live healthier lives, and the tools that we need to make that possible.

The challenge is to sort through the daily onslaught of health-related information and recognize that many of the changes we need to make to improve our health we cannot do alone. Our sense of family and responsibility to our family is one of the great strengths in our community, and it is key to improving the health system. Nevertheless, to do so we all need to work together. Whether it is an uncle, a brother, a sister, or a comadre, we have to help each other become as healthy as possible. This series is for you because there is so much that you can do to improve your own health and the health of others.

We are at a critical moment when we can make all of our lives better. The promise of science is before us, and we must use every bit of information to care for our body, mind, and spirit. Through the Buena Salud series, we want to be your partner in making it happen.

Basta! With that one word, health care advocate Dr. Jane Delgado, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, has issued a call to all of us to stop diabetes. In her richly realized Buena Salud Guide to Diabetes and Your Life, Dr. Delgado makes clear that we should be saying... basta con la diabetes [enough with diabetes]. Like a best friend sitting and chatting at the kitchen table, she provides caring advice and wisdom.

Of course, with Dr. Delgado as a best friend, you also gain insights from one of our countrys top health experts. In a clear language and voice, this book reviews the latest in the science of diabetes. It reminds us that type 2 diabetes does not always run in families and that lifestyle changes may not only prevent or help us manage diabetes, but also result in a healthier life for ourselves and our families.

This book is very personal for Dr. Delgado, as she shares with us stories of her own mother, her best friends, and her extended family. The sense of familia is everywhere in the Buena Salud Guide to Diabetes and Your Life. In a real sense we are all one family working together in our efforts to achieve good health.

Want to be better prepared the next time you see your health care provider? Dr. Delgado gives you questions to ask about the testing and diagnosis, medicine, and management of diabetes. Want to take control of your diabetes? The Buena Salud

Guide has tools to keep track of your numbers, health care visits, and medicines. Want to live a healthier life? Dr. Delgado has a 10-Point Program for a healthier life and a guide to healthy eating that includes pleasure as a key component. Youve got to love a health plan that focuses on pleasure!

I hope you will share the Buena Salud Guide to Diabetes and Your Life with your family and friends. If you or someone you love has diabetes or wants to reduce the chance of developing diabetes, this book can help you achieve a healthier life. Dr. Delgado gives us the information and inspiration to say basta con la diabetes!

LARRY HAUSNER
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION

I know all about diabetes; I have too many relatives
who have diabetes. We all seem to get it. I know that
I will get it, too. It is just a matter of time.

Mara

The good news about diabetes is that Hispanics of all ages have learned that it is a major health problem in our community. The problem is that the information about how common diabetes is in the Hispanic community has been so pervasive and negative that it has played into the fatalismo (fatalism) that is part of our culture. We are left feeling as if developing diabetes is inevitable. Somehow what we know about family history and genetics has misled many Hispanic men and women to believe that they are predestined to get diabetes.

What we should be saying instead is basta con la diabetes (enough with diabetes), because even though diabetes may be diagnosed in several people in a family, there is no single gene that causes diabetes. The data are clear that in the majority of cases, diabetes is not predetermined by our genes; it is a condition that emerges based on the choices we make as to how we live our lives.

Diabetes is not just one disease. It is the name given to many different conditions that share a common theme. Diabetes is the way our body communicates to us that something is wrong. As a result of whats going wrong in our body, we have too much glucose (sugar) in our blood, and our body needs us to make some changes in our life for our buena salud (good health). When we are told that we have diabetes, that is a clear signal that our body needs help in order to function properly.

In this book what I want to share with you is how to make your life better and easier. Regardless of whether you or someone you care about has diabetes or you are trying to do whatever you can to reduce the chances that you get diabetes, this book is for you. Rather than just giving you information, the goal of this book is to give you a new starting point for your life. I want to help you create a mental attitude where you feel that you have mastery and control of your body. The goal is not looking for perfection in all you do but understanding how your actions can help you either avoid getting diabetes or avoid some of the problems that unfold when you do not control your diabetes.

Part I focuses on helping you create a new framework for thinking about what diabetes is. It also provides a new understanding of what it means that diabetes is tightly connected to other disorders, such as depression and heart disease. The 10-Point Program is a life-changing plan for avoiding or controlling diabetes. Part II provides the facts about the major conditions and terms that are commonly used when discussing diabetes. It describes what is going on when you are developing or already have diabetes and what you can do about it. Part III gives you tools to help you control your health and resources so that you are always up-to-date on what is new as far as this serious illness is concerned.

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