About 10 years ago I checked this book out at my local library. I took notes which I still have today. It changed the way I think about food and it has stuck in my brain. I just bought a paperback copy so I can read it again. I had health issues and was on the borderline diabetic when I found this book. I wanted to reverse my diabetes before it became full-blown. Following this plan lowered my A1C dramatically and I lost weight. My doctor was amazed and asked what I did to make such a huge change in the A1C. Worked for me.
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Mostly sensible advice and guide for controlling and possibly eliminating type II diabetes. Dr. Barnard strongly recommends a very strict vegan diet, with emphasis on almost total elimination of fats, both animal and plant. Dr Barnard's writing is compelling, with clear explanations of why elimination of fats is so important. That is only one instance of his far-ranging explanation of the numerous health issues we diabetics face. The only reason I "dinged" his otherwise 5 star rating is because of his dietician's strange and mostly unavailable menu items. The doctor suggests mostly vegetables, all lightly processed and prepared with simple ingredients. But his dietician chooses mostly obscure items. For example, You might think cabbage would be used for slaw, and boiled or stuffed, but I found only one reference to it, and not in any of the suggested recipes. The doctor's suggestions seem doable and his dietician offers many interesting items, but you may want to use more conventional vegetables and grains in developing your menu items. Read full review
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The book mostly seems to promote a Vegan diet, which means no dairy, no animal products of any kind. If you are planning to extremely change your eating habits to a Vegan diet and use his recipes, which are approximately 1/2 of the pages in the book, then this might be for you. But for regular folks like me, the info I found helpful was info I can find without buying his book. Like info on vitamins and minerals that are found helpful for gaining control of diabetes. Things like magnesium, chromium, cinnamon and the like. His info was basic and not remarkable. The title advertises a highly desirable outcome: Reversing Diabetes. But unless you go Vegan, you cannot even begin to move in the direction that he claims may reverse diabetes. The book I have found to be EXCEPTIONALLY helpful and I would rate as "EXCELLENT" is: Your First Year With Diabetes, What to do, month by month by: Theresa Garnero. (It is sealed by the American Diabetes Association.) You can use it even if it's not your first year with diabetes. The information is helpful, scientific, directive, sensitively written. It has loads of helpful and pertinent information on all aspects of living with as well as getting better and in control of diabetes. The page layout makes for easy management of so much information. I use it almost daily and refer to it repeatedly for reference and ideas. I would choose it any day over Dr. Neal Barnard's book. My two cents.Read full review
Dr. Barnard‘s book gives you the tools and resources in this book to help reverse diabetes. It’s all in your diet. My doctor just told me them now diabetic and wanted to give me pills for it. I decided not to and read Dr. Barnard‘s book and I’m going to follow his diet. It’s a bad diet that got me there and it’ll be a good diet to get me out of it.
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Wow! This is a great book! My husbands fasting blood sugar went from an average of 350 to 120 in less than a month!!! His night sweats are greatly deminished, his eyesight is much better and his attitude has really gotten better. He still misses eating meat! But he feels so much better than he did it looks likes he can live with out it. I'm so glad I found this book. I'm eating vegan now too. We have both lost approximately 15 pounds, my blood pressure has gone down and I feel better too! Thank Dr. Neal Barnard! I tell people where ever I am about it, all my family and friends and I sent it out to all my friends on Facebook! If you have type II diabetes or think that you might have it... get this book! It can change your life. Every time I hear that someone died from diabetes complications it makes me sad, then I get mad. Doctors need to tell people to cut out the fat in their diets to put an end to Type II diabetes!Read full review
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