Product Description

A simple new dietary approach to preventing and treating diabetes

You can help prevent and control diabetes through simple diet and lifestyle changes that are a pleasure to make instead of a chore. This book shows you how. Drawing on the latest diabetes research, Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes presents a complete and sensible plant–based nutrition program that can help you prevent, manage, and, in certain cases, even reverse diabetes.

Covering Type 1(childhood–onset), Type 2 (adult–onset), and gestational diabetes, this book provides detailed nutritional guidelines that have been carefully drafted by Physicians Committee diabetes experts, along with nearly 100 delicious, easy–to–make recipes to help you put these healthy eating principles to work right away. Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes contains important information on:
∗ Exercise and lifestyle issues
∗ Achieving and maintaining healthy weight
∗ Diabetes and pregnancy
∗ Preventing complications from diabetes
∗ And more


Whether you or a loved one has diabetes or is at risk of developing it, this book will give you the crucial knowledge you need to take charge now–of your diet, your health, and your life.

Also available:

Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Cancer (0–471–43597–X)
Healthy Eating for Life for Children (0–471–43621–6)
Healthy Eating for Life for Women (0–471–43596–1)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #577671 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From the Back Cover
A simple new dietary approach to preventing and treating diabetes

You can help prevent and control diabetes through simple diet and lifestyle changes that are a pleasure to make instead of a chore. This book shows you how. Drawing on the latest diabetes research, Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes presents a complete and sensible plant–based nutrition program that can help you prevent, manage, and, in certain cases, even reverse diabetes.

Covering Type 1(childhood–onset), Type 2 (adult–onset), and gestational diabetes, this book provides detailed nutritional guidelines that have been carefully drafted by Physicians Committee diabetes experts, along with nearly 100 delicious, easy–to–make recipes to help you put these healthy eating principles to work right away. Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes contains important information on:

• Exercise and lifestyle issues
• Achieving and maintaining healthy weight
• Diabetes and pregnancy
• Preventing complications from diabetes
• And more

Whether you or a loved one has diabetes or is at risk of developing it, this book will give you the crucial knowledge you need to take charge now–of your diet, your health, and your life.

Also available:

Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Cancer (0–471–43597–X)
Healthy Eating for Life for Children (0–471–43621–6)
Healthy Eating for Life for Women (0–471–43596–1)

About the Author
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM; web site: pcrm.org) is an international nonprofit organization of physicians, health care professionals, and laypersons promoting preventive medicine through innovative programs. PCRM president Neal Barnard, M.D., is a popular speaker and the author of Foods That Fight Pain; Eat Right, Live Longer; Food for Life; and other books on preventive medicine. PCRM promotes preventive medicine through their publication Good Medicine and through innovative programs, including the Cancer Project. PCRM′s clinical research studies are breaking new ground in diabetes, obesity, pain management, and other serious conditions.
PATRICIA BERTRON, R.D., is a registered dietitian with a degree in nutrition and dietetics from Montclair State University. As a specialist in renal nutrition, she provides individual nutrition counseling to clients and teaches weight control classes in a hospital setting.

Customer Reviews

Answered all my questions about diabetes. Very informative.
I found out I had diabetes. This book answered all my questions and helped me understand my condition. Contains all medical information I needed as well as how to plan a diabetic meal plan. Includes sample menu plans as well as 98 various recipes. Suitable and essential reading for anyone with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. From how to prevent it to how to treat it. Information also about all medications available and how they can help or possible side effects. Contains a new, easy to understand and follow, dietary approach to diabetes. Helped me to undertstand what to eat and when. Recommend this book to anyone with diatetes, anyone who cares for someone with diabetes and also to any parent who has a child with diabetes.

Very Bland
As my husband has diabtes 2 I thought this book maybe a good buy. Not sure it was, I found the diabetes information useful (but that is available free from the Diabetes Society!) Just not as informative as the title suggests. The healthy eating section is very bland. The recipes are just so boring! I enjoy cooking and don't feel that healty recipes have to be so bland. I bought Anthony Worral Thompsons diabetes recipe book awhile ago and would recommend that, if its good diabetes freindly recipes your'e after.