The Glycemic Load Diabetes Solution Six Steps to Optimal Control of Your Adult-Onset (Type 2) Diabetes

by Thompson, Rob; Carpender, Dana

• ISBN13: 9780071797382
• ISBN10: 0071797386
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-10
• Publisher: McGraw Hill

Summary

Stabilize your blood sugar in just seven days In the groundbreaking The Glycemic-Load Diabetes Solution, Dr. Rob Thompson, a preventive cardiologist and champion of glycemic-load science, brings you an easy-to-follow, low-starch diet-and-exercise program that promises to stabilize blood sugar in just seven days. In six easy steps, you will learn to eliminate the harmful effects of dietary starch and keep your blood sugar levels perfect while enjoying satisfying amounts of delicious food (including chocolate!). With his books The Glycemic-Load Dietand The Glycemic-Load Diet Cookbook, Dr. Thompson has changed the way we think about treating diabetes. He has kept his own under control for ten years with his focus on starch, not sugar, as the number-one cause behind this chronic condition. Now you can too take control of your diabetes in six simple steps. Inside you will find: An innovative program that challenges current ADA guidelines--not available in any other book Tips on starch-free cooking and easy-to-make low-starch recipes by Dana Carpender, author of the bestselling 15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes A seven-day, easy-to-follow menu plan A way to lose weight, regain vitality, and reduce medication This book is an updated second edition of The Low-Starch Diabetes Solution.

Author Biography

Rob Thompson, MD, is a board-certified cardiologist in private practice who has counseled patients with high cholesterol, diabetes, and heart disease for more than twenty-five years. He is the author of The New Low-Carb Way of Life, The Glycemic-Load Diet, and The Glycemic-Load Diet Cookbook. Thompson resides in Seattle.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Understanding What Brings On Obesity and Diabetes
A Gift from the Fertile Crescent	p. 3
Lowering Blood Sugar the Old-Fashioned Way	p. 7
Glycemic Load: The New Old-Fashioned Way	p. 15
The Culprit, Revealed	p. 35
The Highly Peculiar Effects of Dietary Starch	p. 53
Starch's Slippery Mimic: Sugar-Containing Beverages	p. 65
The Carb-Vulnerable Individual: How Insulin Resistance Works	p. 75
Things That Get Better When You Lower Your Glycemic Load	p. 87
Kicking the Addiction	p. 97
Six Steps to Optimal Control of Your Diabetes
Step 1: Purge Starch from Your Diet	p. 113
Step 2: Inhibit Glucose Absorption	p. 123
Step 3: Sensitize Your Muscles to Insulin	p. 131
Step 4: Keep Your Liver from Overproducing Glucose	p. 147
Step 5: Take Insulin If You Need It	p. 157
Step 6: Optimize Your Cholesterol and Blood Pressure	p. 167
Secrets for Tasty Low-Starch Cuisine
Starch Substitutes That Taste Better than Starch by Dana Carpender	p. 179
The Art of Baking with Starch-Free Flours by Dana Carpender	p. 207
A Seven-Day Low-Starch Meal Plan	p. 233
Metric Conversion Factors	p. 241
References	p. 243
Websites and Suggested Reading	p. 249
Index	p. 251
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