Kick Diabetes Essentials
The Diet and Lifestyle Guide—A Diet and Lifestyle Blueprint
by Brenda Davis, RD
This book is not just for anyone with diabetes. It contains all the perfect recommendations for anyone with cancer, heart disease, or any other chronic illness. The following is taken from the back of the book:
Research shows that following a plant-based diet not only can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes but, can also reverse the disease. Brenda Davis (Registered Dietician) deciphers the latest scientific evidence and explains why and how a whole-food, plant0focused diet can benefit anyone with this devastating disease.
Well-designed plant-based diets work because they address the root causes of diabetes. They maximize powerful protective dietary components that are concentrated in plant foods and work together to ease inflammation and oxidative stress, stabilize blood glucose levels, enhance gut micro flora, and keep blood pressure and cholesterol in check. At the same time, plant-based diets minimize the harmful components concentrated in highly processed foods and animal products.
Lifestyle adjustments in conjunction with improved dietary habits are essential for achieving and maintaining diabetes health goals. Stress management, exercise, adequate sleep, social activity, and a healthy weight all contribute to a balanced trinity of physical fitness, mental clarity, and emotional stability.
“Kick Diabetes Essentials is a gold mind for people with diabetes. It is packed with solid scientific evidence, practical guidelines, and carefully constructed recipes. Brenda Davis is my favourite go-to-dietitian. You can rest assured that you are in very capable hands.” — Michael Greger, MS (How Not To Die)
Here is what the publisher has to say about this book:
Over the last fifty years, nutrition researchers have built upon each others work to prove that a diet based on plant foods could reduce diabetes risk and in many cases reverse diabetes. Kick Diabetes cites the latest research into why plant foods lead to success, which foods are the most effective, and how to construct a diabetes-busting diet that not only gets results but also is simply delicious. In addition, it combines diet, exercise, rest, and stress management into a powerful prescription for health. Included are menu plans based on over 40 recipes featuring the nutrient-dense foods needed to reverse diabetes. Inspiring stories demonstrate how the initial success of the Kick Diabetes diet builds confidence and encourages people to adopt a healthier lifestyle.
The following is an excellent review of this book:
Canadian dietician Brenda Davis, RD is the head dietician for the Diabetes Wellness Project, an intervention program to reverse the diabetes epidemic in the South Pacific Marshall Islands. Her focus – plant-based nutrition – and she not only has published over eight books on nutrition and vegan cookbooks, but she is also an internationally acclaimed speaker. She was inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame in 2007.
What a welcome addition to the field of discovering natural ways to be healthy! In this excellent book Brenda Davis makes Diabetes a subject everyone can understand and control, simply by attending to healthy issues such as the vegan diet and healthful practices of living. The manner in which she explains diabetes – both Type 1 and Type 2 – makes this complex and worldwide problem understandable to the lay person, including many of the permutations of that disease such as cardiovascular disease, peripheral neuropathy, renal dysfunction, retinopathy, depression and more.
Once she has grounded her discussion of diabetes, Brenda proceeds to outline the aspects of how diet choices can alter the progress of this disease – and prevent it! Her information is augmented with excellent illustrations in the forms of graphs, diagrams, drawings and photographs that make reading through this book a pleasure visually as well as intellectually.
Before diving into the excellent meals for which she presents detailed recipes, Brenda instructs about the importance of understanding the benefits of plant foods and how their components foster good health, the importance of exercise, stress management, weight control, and adequate sleep - all part of her recommended management of kicking diabetes. This is a fine book for those who are confronting the diagnosis of diabetes, but also for all of us who respect the concept of healthy living in preventing illness. Highly recommended. — Grady Harp, April 20
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