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It is possible to repair insulin function and reverse type II diabetes -- in this book Dr Neal Barnard shows you how
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Now available in paperback! Doctors have always considered type II diabetes to be an irreversible condition. But, as Dr Barnard shows in his groundbreaking book, this is simply not true. In a series of studies, he has proven that it is possible to repair insulin function and reverse type II diabetes, and here he shows you how. Using this scientifically proven, life-changing programme, you will be able to control your blood sugar levels three times more effectively than with other well-respected diets for people with diabetes. With Dr Barnard’s programme, you will eat regular meals throughout the day, building each meal on the 'New Four Food Groups': vegetables, fruits, whole grains and pulses. This new way of eating will improve the way your body responds to insulin – thereby reversing the defining symptom of diabetes. In fact, many people will find they are able to cut back on medication after just a few weeks on this programme. With its emphasis on high-fibre, low GI foods and its foundation on proven scientific fact, this is a programme that will work for you.
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55 of 56 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have been a diabetic for 9 years and I have learned more in the last week whilst reading this book than in the whole preceding time.
Having followed the diet faithfully for 7 days I have lost 7 lbs in weight and reduced my blood glucose from 7.3 to 6.3 mmol/litre, without feeling hungry.
I have been advised for the past year to go onto insulin, but I am now hopeful of not only avoiding this for some years but also being able to reduce medication.
The best few pounds I have ever spent.
Having followed the diet faithfully for 7 days I have lost 7 lbs in weight and reduced my blood glucose from 7.3 to 6.3 mmol/litre, without feeling hungry.
I have been advised for the past year to go onto insulin, but I am now hopeful of not only avoiding this for some years but also being able to reduce medication.
The best few pounds I have ever spent.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Without any doubt whatsoever, I found this book to be the most inspirational that I have ever read and I am confident that it has changed my life for the better.
I was been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes more than 8 years ago. In that time everything that had been said to me told me that I had started a gradual but inevitable downward spiral that would end in various health complications and early death. However, this book has told me that there is a graet deal that I can do to reverse this situation and improve my lot.
I must confess that I have not embraced Dr Barnard's advice in its entirety - owever, I have moved my diet a long way towards what he suggests. What have I achieved? In approximately three months, my Hba1c has dropped from 9.4 to 5.7 and is still dropping and I have lost 15 kgs in weight. Life is certainly looking much brighter for me than it did before!
The book is very well written and entirely readable. In fact, I've just started reading the book for a second time to try to find things that I missed the first time.
Dr Barnard is an American doctor and author. I have found that this sometimes causes problems with books being published for a different country - this being due to different terminologies and details such as units making books almost uneadable. However, this book has most definitely been written for UK readers - the first time I've ever come across this being done. The author has done this remarkably well and very successfully!
In my opinion, this book about healthy eating is a must for all diabetics whether they be Type 2 or Type 1. Without doubt, the best money that I have ever spent! Buy it and read it!
I was been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes more than 8 years ago. In that time everything that had been said to me told me that I had started a gradual but inevitable downward spiral that would end in various health complications and early death. However, this book has told me that there is a graet deal that I can do to reverse this situation and improve my lot.
I must confess that I have not embraced Dr Barnard's advice in its entirety - owever, I have moved my diet a long way towards what he suggests. What have I achieved? In approximately three months, my Hba1c has dropped from 9.4 to 5.7 and is still dropping and I have lost 15 kgs in weight. Life is certainly looking much brighter for me than it did before!
The book is very well written and entirely readable. In fact, I've just started reading the book for a second time to try to find things that I missed the first time.
Dr Barnard is an American doctor and author. I have found that this sometimes causes problems with books being published for a different country - this being due to different terminologies and details such as units making books almost uneadable. However, this book has most definitely been written for UK readers - the first time I've ever come across this being done. The author has done this remarkably well and very successfully!
In my opinion, this book about healthy eating is a must for all diabetics whether they be Type 2 or Type 1. Without doubt, the best money that I have ever spent! Buy it and read it!
26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This vegan, low oil, "low glycemic index" diet will undoubtedly, if adopted, constitute a great improvement for many diabetic patients, both types 1 and 2. These individuals will lower their blood sugars, reduce their medication and lose weight, as indeed was the case with the patients referred to in the book.
However, I do not subscribe to Dr. Barnard's allowance of sugar, nor his recommendation to eat generous amounts of fruit, no matter how much he claims these fruits have a low GI. Sugar is sugar, and fruit sugar is just as harmful to a diabetic as sugar cubes. My own type 1 diabetes was provoked by my eating too many bananas (although admittedly I had a preliminary history of undiagnosed hypoglycemia.) Bananas are permitted in this diet, but having become ill by consuming these, I have no faith in being able to cure myself by continuing to eat them (1 banana = 7 teaspoons of sugar). He even finds dried fruits acceptable.
Moreover he has no objection to processed foods/instant soups found in packets or tins, that are generally filled with deleterious additives, sugar, white flour, etc. etc. (he recommends baked beans, but even the organic tinned baked beans I found in my local supermarket contain 13.8% sugar.) Nor has he any objection to the use of non-stick pans or microwave ovens, that are known to be dangerous. In fact he recommends their use.
He bans fish (owing to its high fat content), though it is generally accepted that fish are to be recommended, as they contain beneficial oils. On the whole, he does not distinguish between healthy and unhealthy oils, and does not seem to realize that we need omega 3-containing oils such as flaxseed oil.
He states that by foilowing his diet we will exclude all cholesterol, this being found only in animal foods. But according to Joel Wallach in his book "Dead doctors don't lie" a certain amount of cholesterol is necessary, since one can die from too little as well as too much cholesterol. I wouldn't know, not being an expert. I certainly believe that the consumption of eggs does not raise one's cholesterol level unless they are fried in unhealthy fats/oils.
Under any circumstances, I'm not sure that the author's extreme low-fat diet is in any way necessary for type 1 diabetics, since he explains that his diet was put together on the basis of research indicating that type 2 diabetics have an excess of fat inside their muscle cells that interferes with insulin's intracellular signalling process, resulting in insulin resistance. Therefore they are helped by a low-fat diet. But type 1 diabetics do not suffer from insulin resistance but from a faulty pancreas that has difficulty in producing insulin, so why should they exclude beneficial oils?
Dr. Barnard's tenet that the addition to the diet of a standard multi-vitamin including B12 will provede "complete nutrition" is ludicrous. Though he does in a later ultra-short chapter provide an absolutely minimal list of recommended supplements.
To sum up, this book will absolutely be helpful for those type 2 diabetics who are prepared to commit to following the diet, but since he admits it will not cure type 1 diabetics I would rather follow Cass Ingram's diet as described in his book "Natural cures for diabetes". And I feel that avoiding healthy oils to the extent prescribed by Dr. Barnard could be harmful in the long run.
However, I do not subscribe to Dr. Barnard's allowance of sugar, nor his recommendation to eat generous amounts of fruit, no matter how much he claims these fruits have a low GI. Sugar is sugar, and fruit sugar is just as harmful to a diabetic as sugar cubes. My own type 1 diabetes was provoked by my eating too many bananas (although admittedly I had a preliminary history of undiagnosed hypoglycemia.) Bananas are permitted in this diet, but having become ill by consuming these, I have no faith in being able to cure myself by continuing to eat them (1 banana = 7 teaspoons of sugar). He even finds dried fruits acceptable.
Moreover he has no objection to processed foods/instant soups found in packets or tins, that are generally filled with deleterious additives, sugar, white flour, etc. etc. (he recommends baked beans, but even the organic tinned baked beans I found in my local supermarket contain 13.8% sugar.) Nor has he any objection to the use of non-stick pans or microwave ovens, that are known to be dangerous. In fact he recommends their use.
He bans fish (owing to its high fat content), though it is generally accepted that fish are to be recommended, as they contain beneficial oils. On the whole, he does not distinguish between healthy and unhealthy oils, and does not seem to realize that we need omega 3-containing oils such as flaxseed oil.
He states that by foilowing his diet we will exclude all cholesterol, this being found only in animal foods. But according to Joel Wallach in his book "Dead doctors don't lie" a certain amount of cholesterol is necessary, since one can die from too little as well as too much cholesterol. I wouldn't know, not being an expert. I certainly believe that the consumption of eggs does not raise one's cholesterol level unless they are fried in unhealthy fats/oils.
Under any circumstances, I'm not sure that the author's extreme low-fat diet is in any way necessary for type 1 diabetics, since he explains that his diet was put together on the basis of research indicating that type 2 diabetics have an excess of fat inside their muscle cells that interferes with insulin's intracellular signalling process, resulting in insulin resistance. Therefore they are helped by a low-fat diet. But type 1 diabetics do not suffer from insulin resistance but from a faulty pancreas that has difficulty in producing insulin, so why should they exclude beneficial oils?
Dr. Barnard's tenet that the addition to the diet of a standard multi-vitamin including B12 will provede "complete nutrition" is ludicrous. Though he does in a later ultra-short chapter provide an absolutely minimal list of recommended supplements.
To sum up, this book will absolutely be helpful for those type 2 diabetics who are prepared to commit to following the diet, but since he admits it will not cure type 1 diabetics I would rather follow Cass Ingram's diet as described in his book "Natural cures for diabetes". And I feel that avoiding healthy oils to the extent prescribed by Dr. Barnard could be harmful in the long run.
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Borderline
Bought this book as I am borderline with diabetes.
This book is more informative than the local GP.
And gives good advice on how reverse the condition.
This book is more informative than the local GP.
And gives good advice on how reverse the condition.
Published 1 month ago by Mr. G. Mellor
dedication required
This is a well written book the contents easily understood and digested by the layman or woman. the arguments for the diet are wholly rational and the results of testing out the... Read more
Published 4 months ago by DEREK PHARE
This worked for me
I was diagnosed as insulin resistant and had a fasting glucose level of 6.4. This diet worked for me. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Dr. David Elliman
Very Disappointing (returned)
Typical American writer with a lot of waffle to pad out the message. Basically, follow a vegan (no animal/dairy products) diet and cut out fat and eat food with low glycemic... Read more
Published 10 months ago by A. J. Ward
Caution
A very convincing book. Very similar to the Mcdougall Plan. BUT, if you buy this don't buy "Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Ian W
A proven cure for diabetes
Diabetes is a killer. And this book has a proven cure, a wholefood diet. A simple diet anyone can follow. It deserves a place on everyone's bookshelf.
Published 19 months ago by S. Morley
life changing for the benefit of your health
excellent book, helps evaluate your life and see what you're doing wrong and how you can correct it. Read more
Published 19 months ago by chicken bird
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Published 21 months ago by V. F. Garza
Excellent results
I haven't read this book! - BUT i have seen the results. Send it down to my father, he's lost loads of weight and his blood sugar results are back in the normal range - so he has... Read more
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