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Prediabetes For Dummies

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Dr.Rubin has done it again. In diabetes for Dummies he taught us how to manage the most common form of diabetes, type 2 diabetes. In diabetes Cookbook for Dummies he showed us we could eat great food despite having diabetes. In Type 1 Diabetes for Dummies he explained the form of diabetes that usually begins in childhood. Now he tells us how to avoid diabetes altogether. Nothing appears to be left out. He explains how to identify prediabetes. He tells us how to eat and exercise to prevent or reverse the condition. He explains the consequences if we permit prediabetes to develop into diabetes. Despite the seriousness of the topic, Dr. Rubin manages to keep it light as he has done in all his other books. It is highly unlikely that you will find a better book on this subject.

This For Dummies edition, like other For Dummies books, is plainly written and clearly presented. The prediabetic reader begins to understand diabetes and what indications to watch for. It thoroughly discusses foods beneficial as well as those harmful, and offers hope and assurance that if one controls weight and diet, and exercises, there is light at the end of the tunnel and diabetes does not have to happen. That is, as long as a person remains vigilant in these areas. So, those considered obese or couch potatoes, beware!

I think this book is very useful. I sat in a bookstore skimming many, many books before I decided this one was the best for the information I needed. I recommend this book for anyone that wants to prevent diabetes.

This book was quite easy to read yet covered all the details in their entirety. Given the foreboding subject matter the material was presented in an upbeat manner that will spur any reader to make the necessary changes in daily life.

While searching for more information about how to eat in order to avoid developing diabetes, I thought this book might do the trick. It did. More than mere fluff and generalizations, this book helped me understand the proper way to eat - the combinations to adopt and why they work - in order to prevent developing diabetes. The balance of exercise and balanced eating became clear and the suggestions and recipes were easy to understand and incorporate into my daily living. I am a great cook, so I wanted to learn the basics of life and food choices more than having recipes and daily food plans to follow. This book enabled that.

Excellent book for anyone who was diagnosed with prediabetes and don't know which way to turn in regards on how to avoid getting this disease. It shows you step by step on everything that you should know about how to avoid getting this disease. It also goes more indept as the change in life style that is needed, as well as, reversing prediabetes. I would highly recommend this book.

It's a book to give to friends and family to help them ward off diatbetes. Well written and not biased. Very well done and was appreciated by those I gave it to.

I just finished this book and found it extremely helpful in understanding what prediabetes actually is and what I can do about it. Since I am not overweight, it is difficult to follow the menus which are deliberately low in calories, but I am doing the weight/resistance exercises and following at least the general diet ideas.

This book isn't as good as other Dummies I've read. It has some information that is misleading, saying that you can easily reverse prediabetes. It can be reversed, but with great difficulty. The rest of the information is pretty good. It has very good information on bariatric surgery options.

I was recently diognosed with prediabetes. I ffound lots of material on diabetic diets,but little on reversing prediabeties until this book.I wanted to know about carbs calories exercise etc. . This gave me what I needed. Thanks! Jared