We are delighted that you found us and hope that you'll return again and again! As the only authors of diabetic cookbooks to have been bestowed with the coveted James Beard Cookbook Award and a nomination for the also renowned Julia Child Cookbook Award, we are pleased to offer you an ever-growing array of hundreds of delicious, healthy recipes with nutritional analysis and diabetic exchanges. We also provide lots of useful, and inspiring menus to help you put your meals together, whether for a simple, family supper; a picnic in the park; or an elaborate holiday gathering for family and friends.
If you want practical information on how to live well with diabetes, we invite you to visit our other popular website at
http://www.diabetic-lifestyle.com.
Here's who we are:
publishers/editor: Frances Towner Giedt -- author/co-author of twelve 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. Most recent books: co-author of the Joslin Diabetes Quick & Easy Cookbook and the soon-to-be-published Joslin Diabetes Healthy Carbohydrate Cookbook (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, March, 2001). 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 diabetes 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. Most recent books: co-author of the Joslin Diabetes Quick & Easy Cookbook and the soon-to-be-published Joslin Healthy Carbohydrate Cookbook (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, March, 2001). 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.
Our Advisory Board:
Tammi Hancock, R.D. : With 11 years experience working with diabetics at the Mayo Clinic and in private practice, Tammi does the nutritional analysis for all diabetic-lifestyle.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 retired psychiatrist, Dr. Polin has specialized in eating disorders and behavioral medicine which often plays a role in the treatment of diabetes and juvenile diabetes.
Richard Sanders Polin, M.D. : Neurosurgeon at Louisiana State University Medical, Shreveport, Louisiana. Recipient of the Best Young Neurosurgical Researcher in the United States Award by the American Medical Association, 1997.
Christopher G. Zitnay, M.D. : A type 1 diabetic practicing endocrinology at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Dr. Zitnay is board certified in Internal Medicine, and Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism.
