Highs & Lows A Personal Approach to Living With Diabetes

Each year, complications from diabetes kill more people around the world than AIDS, breast cancer and lupus combined. And the World Health Organisation estimates that by the year 2010 there will be 239 million people living with diabetes. Yet despite these staggering statistics, diabetes is a condition that is not clearly understood by the general population. In this important new book, twenty-eight-year-old author Michael Twist tells his own story of living with type 1, insulin-dependent diabetes. He shares his experience of being diagnosed as a teenager and his subsequent frustration at trying to find current, practical advice aimed at young people living with diabetes. He speaks openly about the discrimination he faced at school and at work, and frankly addresses some of the misapprehensions about the disease that have arisen out of medical science and the media. This is not a book of prescriptions or diets. It is a potent, personal account of the daily realities of living with a chronic medical condition. Twist argues for a re-evaluation of the way we as a society view diabetes and those who suffer from it. Twist's book fills an important gap in diabetes literature by offering valuable insights and helpful tips for young men and women living with diabetes, and for those of us who know them.Twist, Michael F. is the author of 'Highs & Lows A Personal Approach to Living With Diabetes' with ISBN 9781894663052 and ISBN 1894663055.