The reader is reminded to seek competent medical advice and not to make any changes to their diet, lifestyle, treatment plan(s) or start any treatment plan(s), including exercise, without first obtaining approval from a physician. Studies have shown that certain exercises and/or implementing tight glucose control too quickly can worsen retinopathy.

Chapter 16, Exercise: Password to Good Health, is authored by one of the top cardiologists in the world. This chapter provides information to discuss with your physician for developing an exercise plan that matches your lifestyle and health situation.

Physical activity is imperative to good health and studies have shown that physical activity, nutrition, and weight loss can reverse pre-diabetes. Depending on the severity and duration, a properly designed exercise program can reverse type 2 diabetes. Physical activity reduces insulin resistance associated with type 2 diabetes. In type 1 diabetes, exercise also lowers insulin resistance and helps reduce the body's total daily insulin requirements.

Chapter 9, Community Service, discusses getting involved within your community in an effort to help improve the lives of everyone affected by diabetes. It also reveals two things that were changed in one culture over the last century that moved it from having virtually no incidence of diabetes to a culture that now has the highest incidence of diabetes anywhere in the world. The two items when combined—and probably an unknown genetic pre-disposition to type 2 diabetes—caused type 2 diabetes to proliferate with incredible speed, morbidity and mortality in this culture.