Diabetes: what it is, what it does -- Your diabetes dream team -- Ditching "deniabetes" -- Change your mind; change your behavior -- Nutrition building blocks -- Building a diabetes pyramid -- Other meal planning strategies -- What's in a name? food labels demystified -- Alternate routes: the pros and cons of alternative treatments -- How much is "a little sugar?" monitoring your glucose -- Weighing in on diabetes and dieting -- Get a move on: exercising to control diabetes -- Take that! medications and treatments -- What next? avoiding diabetes complications -- Children with diabetes: helping them cope, giving them care -- In closing: living with diabetes.