Authors: Julian Whitaker
ISBN-13: 9780446676588, ISBN-10: 0446676586
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date Published: June 2001
Edition: Revised and Updated
Dr Whitaker presents a comprehensive lifestyle programme that has helped thousands of diabetic patients. Along with helping to reduce or even eliminate dependency on medication, it can help diabetics lose excess weight and lower blood pressure.
Physician Whitaker (Reversing Heart Disease offers some sound advice that is, unfortunately, shrouded by specious assertions, such as his belief that diabetes is a reversible condition and not a chronic disease. He promotes a sensible low-fat, high-carbohydrate and high-fiber diet (recipes included) and an exercise program, but his claims that diet and exercise will help ``hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of diabetics in this country to become drug free'' should be taken with more than a grain of salt. As he admits in the book, persons with Type 1 diabeteswhose diabetes emerged because of a lack of insulin in the body rather than the inability of the body to use it effectively``will almost always require insulin injections,'' although the amount may be reduced by following his regimen. He cautions readers to use this program under a doctor's care but repetitiously attacks his colleagues for their ignorance of nutrition and readiness to prescribe medications, and dredges up George Washington's unnecessary death by bleeding therapy at the hands of a doctor. He attributes eye damage to aggressive insulin treatment, which should also cause a stir in the medical community. Illustrations not seen by PW. (July 23)
Preface | xiii | |
Introduction | xxi | |
Part I | Knowing What to Expect | 1 |
1 | What to Expect If You Have Diabetes | 3 |
2 | What to Expect of This Book | 11 |
Part II | The Basis of the Diet Solution | 25 |
3 | How Diet Can Improve Insulin Sensitivity | 27 |
4 | Too Much Protein Can Be Dangerous | 46 |
5 | Exercise: A Must for the Diabetic | 62 |
6 | Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation | 78 |
Part III | Problems of Too-Aggressive Treatment | 99 |
7 | Insulin: The Dangers of Excess | 101 |
8 | The Oral Drugs | 121 |
9 | Additional Drugs in the Diabetic Patient | 142 |
Part IV | A Month of Menus: Recipes and Meal Plans | 159 |
Part V | Patient Testimonials | 359 |
Bibliography | 372 | |
Index | 377 |