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This diabetic cookbook contains over 200 specially created recipes which provide healthy, balanced meals. Each recipe lists calories per serving,…
fat, protein and carbohydrate content. The book also contains a section on diabetes and a healthy lifestyle. 2001.
The New York Times bestselling author of "Eat to Live" and "Super Immunity", and one of the country's leading experts…
on preventive medicine, offers a scientifically proven, practical program to prevent and reverse diabetes - without drugs. Bestseller. 2013, c2012.
Draws on Red Cloud's autobiography, which was lost for nearly a hundred years, to present the story of the great…
Oglala Sioux chief who was the only Plains Indian to defeat the United States Army in a war. 2013.
Joseph (Augie) Merasty was one of 150,000 children taken from their families and sent to residential schools. Merasty takes readers…
inside his time at residential school, where he was taught to be ashamed of his family and his culture and where he experienced emotional and physical abuse. But even as he looks back on this painful part of his childhood, Merasty’s sense of humour and warm voice shine through. 2015.
The authors answer more than 130 frequently asked questions about diabetes. Chapters address general information, facts about Type I and…
Type II diabetes, concerns of family and friends, and weight loss. Also includes results of the 1993 American Diabetes Association's Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Study. 1994.
For diabetics, diet is more than a lifestyle choice - it's the key to controlling the course of their disease.…
Many struggle to maintain a healthy weight because the guidelines of the American Diabetes Association are unhelpful in regulating blood sugar - the critical component in keeping diabetes in check. Dr. Bernstein provides a low-carbohydrate approach that has enabled his patients, and himself, to take control of their disease. 2005.
Revised edition containing information on diabetes and its management, based on 1994 recommendations of the American Diabetes Association. Includes advice…
on exercise, alcohol, dining out, and eating while travelling; recipes for soups, breads, meats, poultry, seafood, eggs, cheese, yogurt, pastas, and desserts. 1996, c1978.
The true story of Shannen Koostachin and the people of Attawapiskat First Nation, a Cree community in Northern Ontario, who…
have been fighting for a new school since 1979 when a fuel spill contaminated their original school building. Shannen's fight took her all the way to Parliament Hill and was taken up by children around the world. Shannen’s dream continues today with the work of the Shannen's Dream organization and those everywhere who are fighting for the rights of Aboriginal children. Grades 3-6. 2011.
Describes the treatment of aboriginal children in Canada who were taken to live in residential schools. The story is told…
using interviews and anecdotes shared by those who attended the schools. The current state of aboriginal affairs is also discussed. 1997.
On a Saskatoon night in November 1990, seventeen-year-old Neil Stonechild disappeared, to be found dead in a field, his body…
frozen, three days later. The police investigation was cursory, but Neil's mother Stella refused to give up, as did witness Jason Roy, who had seen Neil, beaten and bleeding, in the back of a Saskatoon police cruiser the night he disappeared. It was only in January 2000, when two more men were found frozen to death, that the truth about Neil Stonechild's fate began to emerge. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2005.
James Bartleman, Ontario’s first Native lieutenant governor, looks back over seventy years to his childhood and youth to describe how…
learning to read at any early age led him to dream dreams, empowering him to serve his country as an ambassador. In time, Bartleman’s exciting and fulfilling career as a Canadian diplomat took him to a dozen countries around the world, from Bangladesh to Cuba, and from Australia to South Africa. After a vicious beating in a hotel room robbery in South Africa, however, he was forced to come to terms with a deepening depression. In the end, Bartleman found new meaning in life when he became the Queen’s representative in Ontario and mobilized the public to support his initiatives championing books and education for Native children. 2016.
Recalls the boyhood years of Ontario's future lieutenant-governor, living in a dilapidated old house complete with outdoor toilet and coal…
oil-lamp lighting. As a half-breed kid, he was caught between two worlds. His Native mother's fight with depression flowed from that dilemma, while his father, a white, working class, guy who never had any money, made the best home brew in the village - and his specialty was raisin wine. 2007.
Thought to be the last of the pelagic seal hunters, Jones is the hereditary Chief of the Pacheenaht people of…
Vancouver Island's west coast. In this memoir, complied with American film producer Stephen Bosustow, the Chief relives the fascinating odyssey of his people as they emerged into the modern Canadian way of life. 1981.
Cette quatrième édition apporte beaucoup d'informations nouvelles tant à la population en général qu'aux personnes diabétiques. Pour la première fois,…
il y est question des facteurs de risque impliqués dans le développement du diabète et de la prévention du diabète de type 2. Les personnes diabétiques y trouveront une mise à jour des nouveaux lecteurs de glycémie, des médicaments anti-diabétiques oraux et des insulines. En ce qui concerne l'alimentation, le livre présente le nouveau guide nutritionnel de Santé Canada. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire et plus vieux. 2004.
Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the…
Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of seventeenth-century Jamestown, Virginia. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. 2003.
Ce qui nous pousse à avancer est l'extraordinaire récit de la vie de Tebasonakwut Kinew (ou Peter Kelly, comme l'avaient…
appelé les religieux au pensionnat indien). Père de l'auteur, ce chef Anishinaabe (Ojibwé) originaire du Nord de l'Ontario a vécu à Winnipeg. Le livre, d'un style limpide et réaliste, se lit comme un roman. Les aventures et mésaventures de Tebasonakwut Kinew, parfois tragiques, parfois drôles, sont l'occasion de raconter la vie de tout un peuple à travers les épreuves du temps, de la discrimination des années 1930 à la lutte pour le droit de vote et les droits civiques des années 1960. 2017. Titre uniforme: Reason you walk.
The memoirs of James Bartleman, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, detailing his rise from poverty and discrimination to the top of the…
diplomatic and vice-regal life. Born in 1939, Bartleman grew up in a canvas tent and a series of uninsulated frame shacks around Port Carling, Ontario. An American millionaire on holiday in Muskoka paved the road to higher education and diplomacy. 2002.
Documents the life and achievements of the nineteenth-century Northern Paiute leader, examining how her aptitude for languages and diplomacy enabled…
her to advocate on behalf of her tribe. Grades 4-7. 2013.
Né d'un père disparu et d'une mère alcoolique, Stanley Vollant est sauvé de l'orphelinat par son grand-père innu, pêcheur de…
saumons et trappeur de Pessamit, sur la Côte-Nord. Élève brillant doté d'une mémoire prodigieuse, il doit surmonter sa peur du sang et sa phobie des cadavres pour devenir, en 1994, le premier chirurgien d'origine autochtone de l'histoire du Québec. Tout au long de son parcours, il se fera remarquer par ses succès scolaires... et ses prouesses athlétiques. Coureur de fond, joueur de football, marathonien, il prendra part à plusieurs compétitions jusqu'à ses études supérieures. Mais à la suite d'une série d'échecs personnels, dont deux divorces, il sombre dans une dépression qui le mènera au bord du suicide. C'est le visage de ses enfants, apparaissant sur l'écran de son téléphone portable, qui le retiendra au moment de poser le geste ultime. Aujourd'hui considéré comme un modèle de réussite pour les autochtones et pour les Québécois dans leur ensemble, il a entrepris en 2010 une grande marche pour sensibiliser l'opinion publique à la cause des Premières Nations et à l'importance de l'exercice physique. Conférencier recherché, lauréat de plusieurs prix, il mène de front plusieurs batailles, dont celle consistant à former plus de médecins issus de minorités culturelles. Le tracé est fait, suivez le chemin conclut le médecin à l'endroit de ses compatriotes. 2013.
Wagamese's look back at the long road he traveled in reclaiming his identity, and about what he's learned as a…
human being, a man, and an Ojibway. Whether he's writing about playing baseball, running away with the circus, listening to the wind, or meeting Johnny Cash, these are stories told in a healing spirit. Through them, Wagamese shows how to appreciate life for the remarkable learning journey it is. Explicit descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 2008.