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1,000 Years of Diabetes Wisdom

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This is a book of fluffy stories. This is the least helpful or substantative book of any I have read on diabetes. A waste of money for someone with diabetes who is looking for information

This book is full of stories from health care professionals and insights they learned from interactions with their patients. This is not a book written for those with diabetes but those who provide care to those with diabetes. Each story is insightful and reminds providers that their patients need to be treated as people and need to experience individualized care. Although all of the stories include persons with diabetes, the lessons learned can be applied to many other persons with chronic illness. I have my students read this book as they learn how to work with patients because it really deals with the art of medicine.

I purchased this book expecting to read facts and information about the disease - instead, it was doctors writing about situations they experienced with their patients - I had to return it - it was not at all what I wanted. I didn't find it loaded with wisdom.

The ADA who published this book have been prescribing a high-carbohydrate diet plan for many, many years & this book just follows along with that. Their diet plan only provides impetus for more & more medications to bring down the blood-glucose levels that are driven up by the high-carb diet.
Does it make any logical sense, since diabetes is an inability of our bodies to process blood glucose, to prescribe a diet rich in the very foods most likely to drive blood glucose up???