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The author of the popular The Glycemic-Load Dietreveals his revolutionary method for keeping blood sugar stable for life.
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Rob Thompson, a preventive cardiologist and champion of glycemic-load science, brings you an easy-to-follow, low-starch diet-and-exercise program that promises to stabilize blood sugar in just seven days. Dr. Thompson has changed the way we think about treating diabetes—and kept his own under control for ten years—with his focus on starch, not sugar, as the number-one cause behind this chronic condition.
Dr. Thompson offers hope for the millions of diabetes sufferers who follow their doctors' orders to the letter yet see their diabetes steadily worsen. In six easy steps, you will learn to eliminate the harmful effects of dietary starch and keep your blood sugar levels perfect while enjoying satisfying amounts of delicious food (including chocolate!).
The Low-Starch Diabetes Solution gives you:
ROB THOMPSON, M.D., is a board-certified cardiologist in private practice who has counseled patients with high cholesterol, diabetes, and heart disease for more than twenty-five years. He is the author of The New Low-Carb Way of Life, The Glycemic-Load Diet, and The Glycemic-Load Diet Cookbook. Thompson resides in Seattle, WA.
Cover design: Rebecca Silvers
Cover photograph: David Murray and Jules Selmes/Getty
Introduction 1
Part 1 The Toxin
1 A Gift from the Fertile Crescent 5
2 Lowering Blood Sugar the Old-Fashioned Way 9
3 Glycemic Load: The New Old-Fashioned Way 17
4 The Culprit, Revealed 37
5 The Highly Peculiar Effects of Dietary Starch 55
6 Sugar-Containing Beverages: Starch's Slippery Mimic 65
7 The Starch-Vulnerable Individual: How Insulin Resistance Works 75
8 Things That Get Better When You Eliminate Starch 85
9 Kicking the Addiction 95
Part 2 Six Steps to Optimal Control of Your Diabetes
10 Step 1: Purging Starch from Your Diet 111
11 Step 2: Inhibiting Starch Absorption 121
12 Step 3: Sensitizing Your Muscles to Insulin 129
13 Step 4: Getting Your Liver to Cooperate 143
14 Step 5: Making Up Any Insulin Deficit with Insulin 153
15 Step 6: Optimizing Your Cholesterol and Blood Pressure 163
Part 3 Low-Starch Cuisine: Discovering a Tastier Way to Eat
16 Starch Substitutes That Taste Better than Starch Dana Carpender 173
17 The Art of Baking with Starch-Free Flours Dana Carpender 201
18 A Seven-Day Low-Starch Meal Plan 227
Appendix A Metric Conversion Factors 235
Appendix B References 237
Appendix C Websites and Suggested Reading 243
Index 245
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Posted December 28, 2009
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Well organized and written simply and in a straight-forward style, this book was an absolute pleasure for me to read - in one day. Dr. Thompson is a cardiologist and shares his own "journey" through his personal diagnosis with this condition - and he substantiates his personal experience and recommendations with solid references.
Recently diagnosed with type-2 diabetes, I have been following a low-starch diet with tremendous success for the last nine months and I was able to supplement my knowledge with this book that explains complicated concepts in easy to understand language that I had a hard time finding in other books. The physical consequences of insulin resistance and understanding - step-by-step - the ways in which your blood sugar, blood pressure, levels of HDL and LDL cholesterol levels, can be manipulated by using nutrition, medication and exercise to live well and in control of diabetes.
This book will be with me a long time. It is simply the best book that I have found on Diabetes 2. Thank you, Dr. Thompson for writing it.
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This book lets you in on many reasons why and how things happen in your body when you have Type 2 diabetes. For those of us watching carbs, low-starch is about the same thing, but I still am an individual that likes to know why. At the back of the book are several recipes - of which I plan to try a few as they look pretty yummy.
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CONTROL YOUR DIABETES BY TARGETING THE TRUE CULPRIT: STARCHThe author of the popular The Glycemic-Load Dietreveals his revolutionary method for keeping blood sugar stable for life.
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Rob Thompson, a preventive cardiologist and champion of glycemic-load science, brings you an easy-to-follow, low-starch diet-and-exercise program that promises to stabilize blood sugar in just seven days. Dr. Thompson has changed the way we think about treating diabetes—and kept his own under control for ten years—with his focus on starch, not sugar, as the number-one cause behind this chronic condition.
Dr. ...