Dr. Steve Parker (M.D.) has created the world's first low-carbohydrate Mediterranean diet, designed for people with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes. His science-based plan blends the healthy components of the traditional Mediterranean diet with the ease and effectiveness of low-carb eating. Conquer Diabetes and Prediabetes teaches how to lower blood sugars naturally, reduce or eliminate diabetic medications, and lose excess weight if needed.
Type 2 diabetics and prediabetics have lost the ability to process carbohydrates safely. Carbohydrates have become poisonous for them. Carb toxicity too often leads to numb and painful limbs, impaired vision, kidney failure, amputations, cancer, and premature heart attacks, strokes, and death. What's the first thing you do when you find you're being poisoned? You stop taking the poison!
Nutrition experts worldwide agree that the Mediterranean diet is the healthiest way of eating for the general public. It prolongs life and reduces rates of heart attack, stroke, cancer, and dementia. The only problem for diabetics is that it provides too many toxic carbohydrates.
Dr. Parker initially recommends a very-low-carb ketogenic diet for 12 to 18 weeks, then teaches the reader how to gradually add more healthy carbohydrates depending on blood sugar and body weight changes.
The book provides recipes, a week of menus, instruction on exercise, discussion of all available diabetic medications, advice on how to avoid weight gain, lists of delicious doctor-approved foods, 71 scientific references, an annotated bibliography, and an index. All measurements are given both in U.S. customary and metric units.
Type 2 diabetics and prediabetics have lost the ability to process carbohydrates safely. Carbohydrates have become poisonous for them. Carb toxicity too often leads to numb and painful limbs, impaired vision, kidney failure, amputations, cancer, and premature heart attacks, strokes, and death. What's the first thing you do when you find you're being poisoned? You stop taking the poison!
Nutrition experts worldwide agree that the Mediterranean diet is the healthiest way of eating for the general public. It prolongs life and reduces rates of heart attack, stroke, cancer, and dementia. The only problem for diabetics is that it provides too many toxic carbohydrates.
Dr. Parker initially recommends a very-low-carb ketogenic diet for 12 to 18 weeks, then teaches the reader how to gradually add more healthy carbohydrates depending on blood sugar and body weight changes.
The book provides recipes, a week of menus, instruction on exercise, discussion of all available diabetic medications, advice on how to avoid weight gain, lists of delicious doctor-approved foods, 71 scientific references, an annotated bibliography, and an index. All measurements are given both in U.S. customary and metric units.
About the Author
Dr. Steve Parker is a leading medical expert on the Mediterranean diet and author of the award-winning Advanced Mediterranean Diet: Lose Weight, Feel Better, Live Longer. He has over two decades' experience practicing Internal Medicine and treating patients with diabetes and prediabetes.
I was really surprised by the Introduction. Dr. Parker begins by apologizing and saying, "I'm sorry for what the Medical establishment has done to people with diabetes. We've done an atrocious job for type 2 diabetics and prediabetics." This immediately makes one realize one is dealing with a very honorable man who really cares about his patients. He had long been an advocate of the proven healthy Mediterranean-style eating for the general population. He says low-carb diets are higher in total fat and saturated fats but since this has been proven not to contribute to heart disease and strokes, now low-carb diets are enjoying resurgence. He calls carbohydrates the poison or toxin because in type 2 diabetes and prediabetes the body cannot handle carbohydrates in the normal fashion. He created a carbohydrate-restricted Mediterranean diet to help people with metabolic syndrome, prediabetes or full-blown diabetes. This diet can reverse metabolic syndrome. He goes into what levels of blood sugar defines one as diabetic and he goes into lots of detail for blood sugar and A1C levels, but all in a way that lay people can understand quite easily. Dr. Parker writes in an interesting way and very clearly. The book is very easy to follow as a result.
He goes into detail about the various drugs to treat diabetes and as well sternly warns people with diabetes that serious consequences from hypoglycemia can arise from following a very low-carb diet and being on certain diabetic drugs, which he names. He explains how to prevent this and monitor glucose levels.
The regular Mediterranean diet is a bit too high in carbohydrates for people who should be low-carbing, but there are some very healthy aspects to the diet that are compatible with a low-carb diet such as "olive oil, nuts and seeds, wine, fish, cheese and Mediterranean spices."
Steve admits that low-carbing is not for everyone, but if it results in major weight loss, then obvious long-term health benefits arise from that.
He describes what one can eat on the Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet (KMD) and which supplements to take. He recommends 8 to 12 weeks on KMD and then to evaluate whether to move onto the Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet. Steve's primary goal with his program is "to reap the health benefits of a Mediterranean- style diet without losing control of blood sugars in diabetics and pre-diabetics. On the Low-Carb Mediterranean diet, he recommends adding in fruits, more veggies, including starchy ones, legumes, yogurt and other dairy products and whole grains. To avoid carb overdose he recommends gradually adding back the carbs. He conveniently groups the foods and indicates serving sizes, including carb counts. A week of meals and special recipes is outlined, including recipes for his daughter, Arizona's baked cheesecake, almond pound cake, low-carb chili, etc.
Then there is a chapter for Daily Life with Low-carb Eating, his sense of humor coming through every now and then making me smile. He gives some cool links for more low-carb recipes and my blog was included! I was tickled pink to find that page. He tells you where you can track your weight, blood sugars and consumption of the major food items for free. There is a chapter on exercise and strength training. The last chapter is about maintenance.
All in all this is a very healthy diet and a super-easy one to follow, far less complicated than most of the low-carb diets out there. It is the first low-carb Mediterranean diet in the whole world! Congratulations, Dr. Parker! I love your book and highly recommend it to anyone wishing to lead a happier, healthier life and definitely recommend it to anyone who has diabetes as it is specifically geared to help and encourage these people to never experience diabetes complications.
Conquer Diabetes and Prediabetes: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet
He goes into detail about the various drugs to treat diabetes and as well sternly warns people with diabetes that serious consequences from hypoglycemia can arise from following a very low-carb diet and being on certain diabetic drugs, which he names. He explains how to prevent this and monitor glucose levels.
The regular Mediterranean diet is a bit too high in carbohydrates for people who should be low-carbing, but there are some very healthy aspects to the diet that are compatible with a low-carb diet such as "olive oil, nuts and seeds, wine, fish, cheese and Mediterranean spices."
Steve admits that low-carbing is not for everyone, but if it results in major weight loss, then obvious long-term health benefits arise from that.
He describes what one can eat on the Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet (KMD) and which supplements to take. He recommends 8 to 12 weeks on KMD and then to evaluate whether to move onto the Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet. Steve's primary goal with his program is "to reap the health benefits of a Mediterranean- style diet without losing control of blood sugars in diabetics and pre-diabetics. On the Low-Carb Mediterranean diet, he recommends adding in fruits, more veggies, including starchy ones, legumes, yogurt and other dairy products and whole grains. To avoid carb overdose he recommends gradually adding back the carbs. He conveniently groups the foods and indicates serving sizes, including carb counts. A week of meals and special recipes is outlined, including recipes for his daughter, Arizona's baked cheesecake, almond pound cake, low-carb chili, etc.
Then there is a chapter for Daily Life with Low-carb Eating, his sense of humor coming through every now and then making me smile. He gives some cool links for more low-carb recipes and my blog was included! I was tickled pink to find that page. He tells you where you can track your weight, blood sugars and consumption of the major food items for free. There is a chapter on exercise and strength training. The last chapter is about maintenance.
All in all this is a very healthy diet and a super-easy one to follow, far less complicated than most of the low-carb diets out there. It is the first low-carb Mediterranean diet in the whole world! Congratulations, Dr. Parker! I love your book and highly recommend it to anyone wishing to lead a happier, healthier life and definitely recommend it to anyone who has diabetes as it is specifically geared to help and encourage these people to never experience diabetes complications.
Conquer Diabetes and Prediabetes: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet
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