Reviews for Diabetes and Hypoglycemia: Your Natural Guide to Healing with Diet, Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, Exercise, and Other Natural Methods

The average rating for Diabetes and Hypoglycemia: Your Natural Guide to Healing with Diet, Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, Exercise, and Other Natural Methods based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-03-09 00:00:00 Thomas Dinges This book is out of date and should be avoided by anyone with diabetes or hypoglycemia. This book recommends that you eat only tiny amounts of protein, almost no fat at all and a whopping 65-75% of your daily calories as carbohydrates. Despite them being traditional foods for thousands of years, healthy fats and proteins are apparently causing the modern epidemic of diabetes and hypoglycemia and so we need to eat massive amounts of carbohydrate to get better. Hmmm... It couldn't possibly be the massive increase in the amount of sugar and refined carbs we are eating, could it? That the NEW foods are what is causing these NEW diseases and health problems? And not the old fashioned foods that have kept many generations before us so healthy? I feel extremely ill and gain weight very quickly eating even 50% of my calories as carbohydrates and that is without me eating the 4 bread rolls a day or two large pasta servings this author recommends, and eating almost all of that intake as vegetables, a little bit of fruit and honey and a single daily serve of steel cut oats. I'd also be hungry and weak all the time, and never not feel hungry as that is what eating too many carbs does if you have blood sugar issues. For me even 40% is too much. Eating what this author recommends would make me incredibly ill. I also 'only' have hypoglycemia and insulin resistance, and not diabetes. I hate to think what this diet would do to a diabetic. Following the advice in this book will make your diabetes or hypoglycemia worse, and will probably make you gain weight as well, as if feeling terrible and ill and moody wasn't enough. There are lots of better books out there on this topic that are science based and just full of useful advice. The first two that come to mind are Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats and The Schwarzbein Principle: The Truth About Losing Weight, Being Healthy, and Feeling Younger. The first book focuses on maintaining good health, and also features a special health building diet for very ill people, as well as a plan to help you lose weight healthily. It also explains that saturated fat and cholesterol are not bad for you and that the lipid hypothesis is not based on science. What we need to do to be healthy is eat real old fashioned food as this is what we are genetically adapted to! The second book focuses on weight loss and the author explains in detail why high carb diets don't work for those with diabetes etc. and why she can no longer give her patients this bad advice. Both books basically recommend eating healthy fats and high quality proteins until satiety then adding lots and lots of non-starchy vegetables, plus a small amount of starchy vegetables and fruit - but no more than your body can cope with without you feeling ill or being overweight. Another excellent book on this topic is Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage) by Gary Taubes. This book explains why calories in, calories out doesn't work and is bunkum, and why high carb diets make so many of us fatter. I'm tempted to not take this book back to my library, as it really should no longer be in circulation. Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-07-26 00:00:00 John Sholin Another textbook. I enjoyed this one about Diabetes and Hypoglycemia. As someone who suffers from hypoglycemia, it was great to read about what foods to avoid, what foods to eat and other natural remedies that could help. It was laid out really well for a non-medical person to understand and put into practice. It was written well with enough medical terms and laymans terms to get the point across. For anyone that has blood sugar issues this is a great little book to have around.