Most healthcare professionals can't tell you how it feels to be struggling for every breath you take, feeling like there is a mountain on your chest every time you try to take a breath, when you are in keto-acidosis, at the point of having a heart attack.

Most healthcare professionals can't tell you how it feels to be struggling for every breath you take, feeling like there is a mountain on your chest every time you try to take a breath, when you are in keto-acidosis, at the point of having a heart attack.

They can’t tell you about the fear you feel when you hear the paramedic with you in the back of the ambulance telling the hospital that he is losing you. They can’t imagine how it is to hear the hospital tell him that they are prepared for an immediate code blue (someone is dying) and asking the paramedic “What is your estimated time of arrival?” They can’t tell you how you must summon every ounce of strength you have from every source you know, God, your Creator, your two small children, your belief that you must live, to just focus on taking the next breath in order to stay alive.

Janet Smith, the author, shares these feelings and much more in her new book AAA Success Formula for Diabetics; Simple Secrets to a Happy and Healthy Life. She’s worked in hospitals. She’s spent years learning about, understanding, and living day to day with every aspect of diabetes. She’s been at death’s door more than once. From almost infancy through childhood, teen years to adulthood, she’s fought the battle with diabetes and is winning.

With the number of people with diabetes reaching almost epidemic stages in the United States, Smith has decided to share her 45 years of experience as a diabetic, in a self-help workbook designed to teach people how to manage their diabetes, whether type 1 or type 2. The book is not designed to replace professional help, but to work in conjunction with, and to find out where to find the correct professional help.

Most people with diabetes have type 2, which is the form most intimately tied to lifestyle. A rise in the prevalence of overweight, obesity, and sedentary lifestyles, has helped to move diabetes to the forefront of public health concerns. Diabetes is the 4th leading cause of death by disease in the US and the 1st cause of amputations.

As Smith says,” Implementing the changes in lifestyle required for good control of diabetes can often seem overwhelming to the diabetic. The disease can affect almost every aspect of a person’s life. Many often give up and just “get by” in life until complications and even death occurs.

With the right healthcare team and with a specific how-to formula for implementing the knowledge gained from healthcare professionals, diabetics can live a long, healthy, well-adjusted, life. The primary key is maintaining control on a daily basis. I’ve been so very fortunate to learn how to self-manage diabetes and yet still live a full, active life. I’ve “walked the walk”, and “talked the talk” of living with diabetes. Now, I’ve written the book to help others with their challenge.”

This book is being published by AJ & Associates and printed by Booksurge. It will be presented this month at the London Book Fair and later this year in Chicago and Canada.

Books are available both retail and wholesale by contacting AJ & Associates, PO Box 1221, King, NC 27021, e-mail ajhs@earthlink.net or at http://www.aaasuccessfordiabetes.com

-Media are free to request a galley copy for review.