You CAN Eat That!

Thanks to this healthy cookbook, parents no longer have to feel helpless when their child is diagnosed with diabetes. Yes, diabetes can be an emotional roller-coaster ride for kids.

But the good news is that parents and children can successfully adjust to life with diabetes. With knowledge, determination, diligent medical care, a sensible diet, and plenty of love, diabetic children can lead healthy, active, and happy lives. And this helpful diabetes book and cookbook will show parents how to help them do that.

Having diabetes does not mean your child should settle for boring, bland food. Food for kids should be creatively made and fun to eat. The recipes in this book use common ingredients and are easy to prepare. Most important, they are all "kid-tested" - on kids with and without diabetes - and geared particularly to kids' tastes.

Now that there is no longer a need to prepare separate meals, dinnertime can be much more pleasant for the entire family.

This guide gives parents of diabetic children what they need - substantive recipes and information from a source that is trusted by people all over the world. This healthy cookbook is one of a series written by health-care professionals from the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic, one of the top four medical centers in the United States.

It provides a straightforward and clear approach to diabetes, a chronic disease, and will prove a valuable resource for any family with a diabetic child.

Award-winning nutritionist, cookbook author, and teacher Robyn Webb has been a passionate advocate of cooking well and eating wisely for most of her life. Because of health problems within her own family, most notably diabetes, Robyn learned early on the importance of a balanced, healthful approach to eating.

Her interest and expertise in nutrition have led to her extensive work with the American Diabetes Association (ADA). Combining culinary talents with hard scientific data, Robyn has devoted her energies to educating people with diabetes about how to facilitate the daily challenge of managing their disease through creative, healthful meal-planning. She is the associate editor of the award-winning Diabetes Forecast magazine, published by the ADA, and read by more than a half million people every month. Robyn writes her own column, "Healthy Eating," and is the recipe developer and tester for the magazine. In addition, she writes a bimonthly column for the ADA web site, which is viewed by about 15,000 visitors a day.