The Low-Starch Diabetes Solution: Six Steps to Optimal Control of Your Adult-Onset (Type 2) Diabetes » (Original)

Rob Thompson, M.D. (Seattle, WA) is a board-certified cardiologist in private practice who has counseled patients with high cholesterol, diabetes, and heart disease for more than 25 years. He is on staff at Swedish Hospital Medical Center in Seattle and is the author of The New Low-Carb Way of Life as well as The Glycemic-Load Diet.

CONTROL YOUR DIABETES BY TARGETING THE TRUE CULPRIT: STARCH

The author of the popular The Glycemic-Load Diet

reveals his revolutionary method for keeping blood sugar stable for life.

In this groundbreaking book, 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. Dr. Thompson has changed the way we think about treating diabetes—and kept his own under control for ten years—with his focus on starch, not sugar, as the number-one cause behind this chronic condition.

Dr. Thompson offers hope for the millions of diabetes sufferers who follow their doctors' orders to the letter yet see their diabetes steadily worsen. 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!).

The Low-Starch Diabetes Solution gives you:

• 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

ROB THOMPSON, M.D., 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, WA.

Cover design: Rebecca Silvers

Cover photograph: David Murray and Jules Selmes/Getty

Introduction 1

Part 1 The Toxin

1 A Gift from the Fertile Crescent 5

2 Lowering Blood Sugar the Old-Fashioned Way 9

3 Glycemic Load: The New Old-Fashioned Way 17

4 The Culprit, Revealed 37

5 The Highly Peculiar Effects of Dietary Starch 55

6 Sugar-Containing Beverages: Starch's Slippery Mimic 65

7 The Starch-Vulnerable Individual: How Insulin Resistance Works 75

8 Things That Get Better When You Eliminate Starch 85

9 Kicking the Addiction 95

Part 2 Six Steps to Optimal Control of Your Diabetes

10 Step 1: Purging Starch from Your Diet 111

11 Step 2: Inhibiting Starch Absorption 121

12 Step 3: Sensitizing Your Muscles to Insulin 129

13 Step 4: Getting Your Liver to Cooperate 143

14 Step 5: Making Up Any Insulin Deficit with Insulin 153

15 Step 6: Optimizing Your Cholesterol and Blood Pressure 163

Part 3 Low-Starch Cuisine: Discovering a Tastier Way to Eat

16 Starch Substitutes That Taste Better than Starch Dana Carpender 173

17 The Art of Baking with Starch-Free Flours Dana Carpender 201

18 A Seven-Day Low-Starch Meal Plan 227

Appendix A Metric Conversion Factors 235

Appendix B References 237

Appendix C Websites and Suggested Reading 243

Index 245