Stop Diabetes: 50 Simple Steps You Can Take at Any Age to Reduce Your Risk of Type 2 Diabetes [Paperback]

Gretchen Becker (Author), Allison B. Goldfine (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2002

An estimated sixteen million Americans have prediabetes, a condition that often leads to full-blown diabetes—and nearly one million Americans will be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in the next year. But everyone at risk can take simple steps to help reduce the chances of developing the condition. Stop Diabetes offers fifty essential, informative ideas for what you can do today, no matter what your age—whether you have prediabetes, a parent or sibling with type 2 diabetes, grandparents, or an aunt with the condition, a severe weight problem, or are a member of an ethnic group at high risk—including Hispanics, Native Americans, African Americans, and Pacific Islanders. Diabetes expert Gretchen Becker’s sensible, inspiring ideas, each presented with a clear rationale, include: • Learn your heritage • Go easy on the fruit juice • Learn about the glycemic index • Go window shopping (any kind of walking helps).

Editorial Reviews

Review

"In 50 highly readable chapters, Gretchen Becker swoops between the banal and the sublime in unforgettable language.... Bravo!" -- John Walsh, P.A., C.D.E., and Ruth Roberts, M.A., authors of Pumping Insulin, STOP the Rollercoaster, and Using Insulin, and directors of The Diabetes Mall at www.diabetesnet.com

"Read Stop Diabetes! You have everything to gain including knowledge and peace of mind." -- June Biermann and Barbara Toohey, founders of the Sugarfree Diabetes centers and authors of nine books on diabetes, including the most recent Diabetes Total Health and Happiness Book

"[Gretchen Becker] writes with such authority and at the same time so clearly....and with a delightful sense of humor." -- Rick Mendosa, diabetes journalist

About the Author

GRETCHEN BECKER, a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Radcliffe College, is a writer and editor specializing in medical books. She was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1996 and is a longtime participant in several diabetes e-mail lists on the Internet. She is the author of The First Year—Type 2 Diabetes. She lives in Halifax, Vermont.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Marlowe & Company (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569245630
• ISBN-13: 978-1569245637
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,956,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gretchen Becker does it again: a wonderful, helpful book, April 6, 2003

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Jean Vignes (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stop Diabetes: 50 Simple Steps You Can Take at Any Age to Reduce Your Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (Paperback)

This book contains everything you need to know about current research and medical advice on preventing type II diabetes (if possible) or at least putting it off for as long as possible if you are genetically 'destined' for diabetes.

With tremendous warmth, humor and intelligence, Ms. Becker gives the reader common sense suggestions that really work. It's like having a really wise friend sit down over a cup of tea and explain it all to you in words you can understand, with suggestions you will actually enjoy following. I wish someone could have handed me this book a long time ago. If I could have know what she teaches now 15 years ago, perhaps I wouldn't be battling the early stages of type II!

Anyone with a family history of diabetes, a personal history of gestational diabetes or obesity, a genetic heritage 'prone' to type II, etc. really should read this book. Doctors and clinics in the U.S. are finally beginning to become proactive with those prone to type II diabetes. After all, the country and most of the industrialized world is in the middle of a type II diabetes pandemic! I hope they start handing Gretchen Becker's book out to everyone who fits the pre-diabetes profile.

She covers everything from learning about the glycemic index, to making movement playful and fun (instead of a `have to do it' grind), to turning yourself into a health-conscious, taste-aware, trend-setting gourmet. There are very few of us who would not benefit from eating less while enjoying it more! She explains how to get started without beating yourself up or becoming a martyr to deprivation.

Bravo!

11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars revised review, January 26, 2005

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Disappointed (Simpsonville, SC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stop Diabetes: 50 Simple Steps You Can Take at Any Age to Reduce Your Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (Paperback)

These are revised remarks since my comments about "Prediabetes" and "Stop Diabetes" being the same book. I got them both and felt somewhat duped.

Gretchen did contact me to explain the Prediabetes is a second edition of Stop Diabetes. I wish it said that on the cover.

The book(s) info about stopping the progression of diabetes is great, so I do recommend either of these books. It is well written in a style that's easy to understand. Just don't get both books; they're essentially identical.