Customer Reviews

Conquering Diabetes: A Complete Program for Prevention and Treatment

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As a 57-year-old man who has been struggling with Type 2 Diabetes for 21 years, I found this book helpful despite already being well read in this subject. Although I've had years of diabetes education, there were some good nuggets here about food, and useful, anecdotal patient success stories about the specific foods they eat and when they eat them.

My only complaint is that Dr. Peters needs to include one more chapter to deal with insulin injections, for those, like me, who have never used insulin before but who may need to do so in the future. And within that missing chapter, she needs to talk about the risk of gaining weight on insulin even with reduced calorie intake, which has happened to many acquaintences. Perhaps these people are doing something wrong, but Dr. Peters doesn't address this frequent and serious concern.

Still, for anyone who needs a lot of information about dealing with diabetes up front, this is as close as it gets to a one-stop shop.

A no nonsense, sophisticated, cutting-edge explanation of the disease, its causes, its evolution, its effects on the body, the latest medical research, the best therapies, diet, the best approaches to exercise and weight management, and the best medications available to remediate and manage the two types of the disease.

Two aspects of the book stand out. First, it does not give a "sugarcoated" version of how serious this disease is: It is brutally honest in making clear that it can and eventually does affect every aspect of the body: the eyes, the extremities, the organs, especially the heart, and the kidneys, also can exacerbate existing high blood pressure and high cholesterol problems.

Second, it gives a detailed analysis of the various medications and discusses their history and evolution, their medical effects and the various situations in which it is most appropriate to use them.

Altogether it is a valuable medical reference and handy resource.

Four Stars

Excellent Book! Very informative, straightforward and easy to understand. Great book for anyone dealing with diabetes AND who want to make improvements in leading a healthy lifestyle.

I was not as impressed with this book. It may have some dated information and I needed something very up to date.

I found the book was very informative, easy to follow, intuitively written. I found answers in this tome, that my primary care did not know. Thank you Dr. Peters and Amazon.com, for your help in making me more conscious of health.