Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes [Paperback]

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (Author), Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (Author)

Book Description

Series: Healthy Eating for Life | Publication Date: January 18, 2002

A simple new dietary approach to preventing and treating diabetes

You can help prevent and control diabetes through simple diet and lifestyle changes that are a pleasure to make instead of a chore. This book shows you how. Drawing on the latest diabetes research, Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes presents a complete and sensible plant-based nutrition program that can help you prevent, manage, and, in certain cases, even reverse diabetes.

Covering Type 1(childhood-onset), Type 2 (adult-onset), and gestational diabetes, this book provides detailed nutritional guidelines that have been carefully drafted by Physicians Committee diabetes experts, along with nearly 100 delicious, easy-to-make recipes to help you put these healthy eating principles to work right away. Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes contains important information on:
* Exercise and lifestyle issues
* Achieving and maintaining healthy weight
* Diabetes and pregnancy
* Preventing complications from diabetes
* And more


Whether you or a loved one has diabetes or is at risk of developing it, this book will give you the crucial knowledge you need to take charge now-of your diet, your health, and your life.

Also available:

Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Cancer (0-471-43597-X)
Healthy Eating for Life for Children (0-471-43621-6)
Healthy Eating for Life for Women (0-471-43596-1)

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From the Back Cover

A simple new dietary approach to preventing and treating diabetes

You can help prevent and control diabetes through simple diet and lifestyle changes that are a pleasure to make instead of a chore. This book shows you how. Drawing on the latest diabetes research, Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes presents a complete and sensible plant-based nutrition program that can help you prevent, manage, and, in certain cases, even reverse diabetes.

Covering Type 1(childhood-onset), Type 2 (adult-onset), and gestational diabetes, this book provides detailed nutritional guidelines that have been carefully drafted by Physicians Committee diabetes experts, along with nearly 100 delicious, easy-to-make recipes to help you put these healthy eating principles to work right away. Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes contains important information on:

• Exercise and lifestyle issues
• Achieving and maintaining healthy weight
• Diabetes and pregnancy
• Preventing complications from diabetes
• And more

Whether you or a loved one has diabetes or is at risk of developing it, this book will give you the crucial knowledge you need to take charge now–of your diet, your health, and your life.

Also available:

Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Cancer (0-471-43597-X)
Healthy Eating for Life for Children (0-471-43621-6)
Healthy Eating for Life for Women (0-471-43596-1)

About the Author

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM; web site: pcrm.org) is an international nonprofit organization of physicians, health care professionals, and laypersons promoting preventive medicine through innovative programs. PCRM president Neal Barnard, M.D., is a popular speaker and the author of Foods That Fight Pain; Eat Right, Live Longer; Food for Life; and other books on preventive medicine. PCRM promotes preventive medicine through their publication Good Medicine and through innovative programs, including the Cancer Project. PCRM's clinical research studies are breaking new ground in diabetes, obesity, pain management, and other serious conditions.
PATRICIA BERTRON, R.D., is a registered dietitian with a degree in nutrition and dietetics from Montclair State University. As a specialist in renal nutrition, she provides individual nutrition counseling to clients and teaches weight control classes in a hospital setting.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (January 18, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471435988
• ISBN-13: 978-0471435983
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #284,215 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes, February 6, 2002

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This review is from: Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes (Paperback)

This book will show you how to control diabetes using the most up-to-date nutritional guidelines. For people with Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes, your diet, your life, and your health will improve if you follow the presented advice. Also, there are nearly 100 easy-to-make, delicious recipes.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, February 18, 2009

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Presentation makes it easy to understand the best way to prevent diabetes, and to set up a workable diet.

9 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars vegetarian book, April 19, 2007

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Plano Gal (Plano, Texas) - See all my reviews

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I agree with the other 3 star review. This book is very highly vegetarian, no milk, no eggs.... The author is very, very anti-dairy, and emphasizes it over and over and over and over, you get the idea. There were some helpful general ideas in the book though, so I am giving it a 3 star.