We are delighted that you found us and hope that you'll return again and again. As diabetics ourselves (type 2 and type 1), we know very well of your need for new, useful, and positive ways to help you control your diabetes.
Here's our diabetic-lifestyle team:
publishers/editor: Frances Towner Giedt -- author/co-author of eleven cookbooks, including the Joslin Diabetes Gourmet Cookbook, winner of the James Beard Cookbook Award for healthy focus and nominee for the Julia Child Cookbook Award, The Joslin Diabetes Quick & Easy Cookbook (Fireside/Simon & Schuster), and The Joslin Diabetes Healthy Carbohydrate Cookbook (Fireside/Simon & Schuster). A home economist with graduate work in dietetics, Frances is a member of the International Wine, Food, & Travel Writers Association (WF&TWA), The American Diabetes Association (ADA), and the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). She was diagnosed as having type 2 diabetic in 1986.
publisher/editor: Bonnie Sanders Polin, Ph.D. -- co-author of the Joslin Diabetes Gourmet Cookbook, winner of the James Beard Cookbook Award for healthy focus and nominee for the Julia Child Cookbook Award, The Joslin Diabetes Quick & Easy Cookbook (Fireside/Simon & Schuster), and The Joslin Diabetes Healthy Carbohydrate Cookbook. A retired psychologist specializing in children and adults with chronic diseases, Bonnie is co-founder of a diabetes clinic for the working poor at Project Get Together and a frequent speaker for the ADA and Interim Healthcare on issues of health care and nutrition for diabetics. She serves as a member of the board of directors for the American Diabetes Association, Children's Services Leadership Board, Dillon International, Interim Health Care, and Project Get Together. She has had type 1 diabetes since 1982.
Giedt and Polin are now working on their fourth cookbook for the Joslin Diabetes series, a hardcover cover cookbook to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2002.
Advisory Board:
Tammi Hancock, R.D. : With eleven years experience working with diabetics at the Mayo Clinic and in private practice, Tammi does the nutritional analysis for all diabetic-lifestyle.com and diabetic-recipes.com recipes using software provided by "The Food Processor", Version 6.02 by ESHA Research.
Gerald Mark Polin, M.D. : Board certified in child psychiatry and psychiatry and a newly-retired psychiatrist from Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital, Dr. Polin has specialized in eating disorders and behavioral medicine which often plays a role in the treatment of diabetes and juvenile diabetes.
Christopher G. Zitnay, M.D. : A type 1 diabetic practicing endocrinology in Virginia. Dr. Zitnay is board certified in Internal Medicine, and Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism.
This is our first web site and we encourage you to e-mail us at editors@diabetic-lifestyle.com and let us know how we're doing.
