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Diabetes & Hypoglycemia: Your Natural Guide to Healing with Diet, Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, Exercise, and Other Natural Methods

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I have low blood sugar and throughout the past few years I have read many books on the subject of sugar. In fact tonight I was reading; The Sugar Addict's Total Recovery Program. As I was reading this book I was getting frustrated at how wordy the book was and how wordy the other books had been that I had read before. The book by Michael T. Murray is clear and to the point. It's an easy read but invaluable for the information it conveys. It is definitely my favorite book and I have been recommending and purchasing it for friends and family for years.

This book provides information that I've looked for, but never found, in other books on Diabetes. It gives a wealth of info on diet, vitamins/minerals, and general nutrition for diabetics. All references are footnoted, and most advice is accompanied with detailed medical explanations. Other books on diabetes seem to give a lot of advice, without explaining how the conclusions were reached, or what pertinent research was done. Not so with this book! It has been a BIG help in finding very important information, and being a great general guide to subjects that are critical to diabetic well-being!

Murry's book gives so much information on the subjects of diabetes and hypoglycemia. It was also nice to see the two together since they do have a relation. His guidelines are very detailed and easy to understand. This book has helped me and has given me more of the information that I have been searching for. I would definitely recommend this book.

As a hypoglycemic, I am trying to find out what I can do to keep my blood sugar level. Dr. Murray provides the reader with more suggestions than just eating right and exercising. The addition of supplements is very helpful. He also educates on the connection between hypoglycemia and diabetes. This is important for hypolycemics to know since it is very possible for this condition to turn into diabetes.

I highly recommend Hypoglycemia: The Classic Healthcare Handbook, by Jeraldine Saunders and Harvey M. Ross in addition to this book.

This is the worst book I've read on the subject of hypoglycemia. He gives erroneous information that would make anyone with hypoglycemia feel even worst. Such as a diet that includes beans or breakfast that only includes carbs. This would increase the symptoms, not mitigate them. I suspect his professional claims.

1996 is almost light years away from all the new nutrient info available today. I have both encyclopedias that Dr. Murray has authored, & they are more recently published than this book.

This book is out of date and should be avoided by anyone with diabetes or hypoglycemia.

This book recommends that you eat only tiny amounts of protein, almost no fat at all and a whopping 65-75% of your daily calories as carbohydrates.

Despite them being traditional foods for thousands of years, healthy fats and proteins are apparently causing the modern epidemic of diabetes and hypoglycemia and so we need to eat massive amounts of carbohydrate to get better. Hmmm... It couldn't possibly be the massive increase in the amount of sugar and refined carbs we are eating, could it? That the NEW foods are what is causing these NEW diseases and health problems? And not the old fashioned foods that have kept many generations before us so healthy?

I feel extremely ill and gain weight very quickly eating even 50% of my calories as carbohydrates and that is without me eating the 4 bread rolls a day or two large pasta servings this author recommends, and eating almost all of that intake as vegetables, a little bit of fruit and honey and a single daily serve of steel cut oats. I'd also be hungry and weak all the time, and never not feel hungry as that is what eating too many carbs does if you have blood sugar issues. For me even 40% is too much. Eating what this author recommends would make me incredibly ill.

I also 'only' have hypoglycemia and insulin resistance, and not diabetes. I hate to think what this diet would do to a diabetic.

Following the advice in this book will make your diabetes or hypoglycemia worse, and will probably make you gain weight as well, as if feeling terrible and ill and moody wasn't enough.

There are lots of better books out there on this topic that are science based and just full of useful advice. The first two that come to mind are Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats and The Schwarzbein Principle: The Truth About Losing Weight, Being Healthy, and Feeling Younger.

The first book focuses on maintaining good health, and also features a special health building diet for very ill people, as well as a plan to help you lose weight healthily. It also explains that saturated fat and cholesterol are not bad for you and that the lipid hypothesis is not based on science. What we need to do to be healthy is eat real old fashioned food as this is what we are genetically adapted to!

The second book focuses on weight loss and the author explains in detail why high carb diets don't work for those with diabetes etc. and why she can no longer give her patients this bad advice.

Both books basically recommend eating healthy fats and high quality proteins until satiety then adding lots and lots of non-starchy vegetables, plus a small amount of starchy vegetables and fruit - but no more than your body can cope with without you feeling ill or being overweight.

Another excellent book on this topic is Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage) by Gary Taubes. This book explains why calories in, calories out doesn't work and is bunkum, and why high carb diets make so many of us fatter.

I'm tempted to not take this book back to my library, as it really should no longer be in circulation.

Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E.

He's not a real doctor. He has no credible degree(s) in nutrition. He's just another layman who thinks he and he alone has the "truth" about one thing or another. There is "truth" in every fallacy, but never the whole truth. Where he is truthful, he has just reiterated what most nutritionists recommend, so there's nothing new there. But there are also some downright dangerous and counterproductive recommendations in this book and if your health is at risk, you would do well to get second and third opinions before following his more extreme diet recommendations.

copyright, 1996: Fat sucks. Eat your carbohydrates. Eat your carbohydrates.
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This is another Atkins hater. Low carb couldn't help your blood sugar prob, could it? Of course not! Better stir fry another ten pounds of Chinese vegatables. Oh, yeah, we all do that! Fat will kill you. Eat your carbohydrates. Bok Choy, letuce juice, dark veggies everything, 13 pounds a day, veggies, veggies, veggies till you puke or go broke, then buy some more veggies! This idiot is OUT OF TOUCH! He is just puking the same stuff Richard Simmons did in 1992.