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there isn't much difference in most books, except usually some information about diabetes, and lower sugar alternatives.

but, from a marketing standpoint, if a company can get away with putting out a different cookbook for different categories of people, sell it and make money, why not? I would!

there are cookbooks that market people blood type, by diet, by ethnicity, health problem, region, country and age. if someone thinks they can sell you a cookbook, chances are are they will make it. change the title, add different graphics -booom! its personalized, and someone out there will buy it.

I got FIVE diabetic cookbooks the first year I was diagnosed. I use none of them, but that is my personal preference. I use an old cookbook from the 1900's, subsitute flours, and away I go.

BUT, if you are not a person who can just 'wing it', and many of us arent', a diabetic cookbook can really help you with ideas. if only to show you that diabetics can eat the same food as anyone else, if they want to, and plan to.