The Diabetes Solution: How to Control Type 2 Diabetes and Reverse Prediabetes Using Simple Diet and Lifestyle Changes--with 100 recipes

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Product Description An authoritative guide to preventing, reversing, and managing prediabetes and diabetes, featuring a comprehensive and holistic diet, fitness, and lifestyle plan, along with 100 recipes, from the authors of The Acid Reflux Solution. Control Diabetes and Reverse Prediabetes Proper management of diabetes from the earliest stages is essential. If you’ve been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, this authoritative guide to preventing, reversing, and managing the disease provides the help you need right now. In The Diabetes Solution, Dr. Jorge Rodriguez and dietitian nutritionist Susan Wyler tell you everything you need to know about this increasingly common disease—from diagnosis to treatment—including the difference between prediabetes and diabetes, ways to prevent serious complications, and the most effective medications and when to start taking them. Many studies prove that a minor weight loss of 5 to 7 percent can make a huge difference in blood sugar levels and diabetic status—an easily achievable goal with The Diabetes Solution’s simple diet plan based on the latest scientifically validated information. The Blood Sugar Budget, a point-based program developed specifically for controlling blood sugar, tells you exactly what to eat and when, and features recipes for 100 tasty dishes that control carb consumption, limit calories, and encourage weight loss. This comprehensive yet accessible guide will show you how to diminish stress, exercise smart, and eat surprisingly well while reducing permanent damage and eliminating future complications. Whether you’re newly diagnosed or have been told you’re at risk, The Diabetes Solution will help you take control of your health and thrive. Review As a physician, I am always looking for helpful educational aides for patients to help take better care of themselves. I found this book to be very easy to read, with enough science to be educational but not too much to be overwhelming or confusing. Dr Rodriquez takes what can be sometimes a very confusing condition and makes it understandable. And with the recipes it doesn't seem to be a "burden" or chore to eat right. With the degree of obesity seen in America, this book should be on everyone's Christmas gift list. Kudos to the authors for a job well done! Douglas Mest MD About the Author JORGE E. RODRIGUEZ, MD, is board-certified in internal medicine with a special fellowship in gastroenterology from Baylor School of Medicine in Dallas, Texas. He has practiced preventive medicine for more than two decades, and appears frequently as a medical expert and guest on television news and talk shows, including The Doctors, The View, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper 360, and Dr. Phil. He lives and practices in Southern California. A graduate of the University of Chicago and the Gillings School of Global Public Health, SUSAN WYLER, MPH, RDN, LDN, is an adjunct instructor in the nutrition program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a registered dietitian nutritionist in private practice and a cookbook author. She lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and practices in Chapel Hill. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction My father was a closet diabetic. I always knew he had high blood sugar, but no disease was ever mentioned in the family. It wasn’t until I was in the middle of writing this book that something clicked, and I asked my mom whether my dad had been diabetic. “He took insulin twice a day,” she said. I was astonished. I am a physician, a specialist in internal medicine who should have known his father’s medical history, but it wasn’t until she divulged this information that it all started to make sense. In his disease progression, my father was the stereotypical candidate for type 2 diabetes. During his youth he was a thin, baseball-playing, athletic, Errol Flynn look-alike—a very ha