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Sugarcoating Diabetes: The Empowering Truth About Diet, Supplements, and Drugs [Paperback]

Ed Posnak (Author)
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July 17, 2006
Sugarcoating Diabetes addresses the question of why it is virtually impossible for diabetics to get straightforward, consistent answers to fundamental questions about diet, drugs, and supplements. The problem, as revealed in Sugarcoating Diabetes, is that virtually all of the health information we receive traces its source to competing entities that know little and care less about preventing diabetes or its complications. As the incidence of type 2 diabetes continues to rise to epidemic proportions, food, supplement, and drug companies capitalize on an expanding market by selling us sugar free candies, miracle vitamins, and lifetime supplies of expensive and ineffective drugs. These industries expend hundreds of millions of dollars annually to promote their products leaving no important source of health information untouched.

The facts, culled from courts of law and science, make the open and shut case that we struggle with diabetes because we are grossly misinformed with slogans instead of science. By revealing the scarcely heard scientist's point of view, Sugarcoating Diabetes empowers its readers to successfully control diabetes using the best "sugar-free" information available today. Unlike other diabetes management books that promise "a road to success", Sugarcoating Diabetes illuminates the path by removing blinders.

What makes this book not only credible, but inspiring, is the story of the author's own reversal of a severe type 2 diabetic condition, which offers hope to those struggling with diabetes. This is not a "miracle cure" book; rather it exposes modern snake oil remedies and marketing slogans that don't work and reveals the science-based methods that many use to manage diabetes without medication, supplements, or sugar-free cookies. Based on extensive research of the medical literature, Sugarcoating Diabetes will enlighten health care professionals as well as diabetics.

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About the Author

Ed Posnak was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in March 2000. Having an HbA1c of 12.8, and insulin nearly zero, Ed was prescribed three diabetes medications, which he took for sixteen months. In July 2001, Ed made lifestyle changes that have enabled him to control his diabetes and live a normal life free of drugs and fear of complications. Ed holds an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and, as a PhD student there, published his original research in top peer-reviewed journals.

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  • Paperback: 276 pages
  • Publisher: Trafford Publishing (July 17, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1412083532
  • ISBN-13: 978-1412083539
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,049,082 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great background book, July 4, 2007
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I loved this book also (I've been reading some great books lately).. The auther describes the different ways consumers and patients are affected by the drug industry. The control advertising, get their employees on medical review boards, including the Food & Drug Administrations, the ADA, the AHA, etc. I read their articles now with a jaundiced eye--these groups should be advocating for patients, not the drug industry. The author mentions one particular drug that has resulted in over 500 deaths--while the company responsible advocated for more testing, instead of taking it off the market. This is a great eye-opener, especially given recent events--the dispute about taking yet another diabetes medicine off the market, and the discussion in Congress about the symbiont relationship between the FDA and the drug industry.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good critique, September 1, 2007
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Some interesting insights into Diabetes, he criticizes the system. In the last chapters he made some interesting observations about the current research. I bought a great book he refers to Eat Drink and Be Healthy by a Dr. Willett of the Harvard Medical School. This book details the current research,I recommend it, he also refers to Dr. Bernstein's book Diabetes Solution which I also recommend.

He is critical of the pharmaceutical industry and warns about dangerous drugs staying on the market. Another observation he made about the report some time ago that 100,000 people a year are killed by medical, his studies indicate that only about 7,000 medication errors were actually due to error and the rest he attributes to reactions to drugs which is something I can relate to. I personally have experienced rgic reactions to medications and that seems to be a common occurrence.

He states he has been successfully controlling his disease without medication.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not a how to book, June 14, 2007
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This book tells a lot about how various organizations promote various ideas that may not be in the best interest of the Diabetic patient. The FDA and the drug companies work together in ways the place the public safety in jeopardy. This book is not a Diabetes how to book. It does not really suggest what methods may work better but rather leaves me with an uneasy feeling about safety of the oral drugs I am taking. The book does provide some hope for the future treatments that may actually cure the disease but does not say much about what the patient can do right now to help himself other than eating real foods and using your meter. If you are looking for methods that may be used to help the condition, I suggest "Death to Diabetes" rather than this book. If you are content to read about the FDA, ADA, etc. then this book may be for you. The book appears to be well researched but except for part about current research for a cure, there is not much that I have not seen elsewhere and written more positively as well.
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