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The Type 2 Diabetes Breakthrough: A Revolutionary Approach to Treating Type 2 Diabetes
Type-2 diabetes is fast reaching epidemic proportions in the U.S. More that 17 million Americans have been diagnosed with the disorder and an estimated 16 million more are living with the disease, but have yet to be diagnosed. Dr. Shallenberger presents his revolutionary approach to treating Type-2 Diabetes and documents his extensive research, which shows that the root of diabetes is a decrease in energy production and fat metabolism. He describes his patented Bio-Energy Test for measuring energy production, an integral part of diagnosing and treating diabetes. At the core of his treatment protocol is his unique perspective on nutritional guidelines for diabetics for optimal energy production. In fact he explains why the American Diabetes Association's dietary guidelines are nothing more than a recipe for keeping the disease.
240 pages, Paperback
First published November 30, 2005
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June 9, 2014
Talk about a dietary boot camp ...
This is a very regimented and controlled eating plan. It tells you what to eat and when (and how) to exercise. Like Sugar Busters, someone who needs the discipline and has the willpower and self-control to follow it to the letter will benefit by this book.
During Week 1 you will eat this and here’s how you will exercise. During Week 2 you will eat this and exercise thusly...
The menus are not draconian and suggest the same foods as the other two books. You may eat a tablespoon of peanut butter on a slice of whole wheat bread, for example.
The book explains measurements in general terms - a cup is about the size of your fist, my thumb a tablespoon and my thumb’s tip a teaspoon. That was my favorite bit taken from the book.
I like that it lists specific diabetic-friendly meal-replacement shakes and frozen dinners. The next day I was putting them in my grocery cart and have been dining on them ever since.
Here I learned that my glypizide can sometimes cause weight gain. Hmm.
Not as many recipes as the other two books, but plenty of exercise instructions and illustrations - much more so than the previous two books.
The layout is very strict and militant - which does not describe the diet. Fortunately I am past the first month of getting my blood sugar down to manageable levels, so I do not need the strict instructions of the first few weeks. As with Insulin Resistance, anyone who loves techy number-crunching will like the structure of the book - if not the diet itself!
It mentions a way to look at the nutrition chart that the others do not. You subtract dietary fiber from the total carbs - they don’t really count as carbs. You can also subtract one-half of the sugar alcohol from the total carbs, too. Look at the Atkins’ Peanut Butter Granola Bar (which I eat for breakfast on hectic week-days) - 18g carbs, but 5g is fiber and 11g is sugar alcohol. This makes the bar, according to this book, effectively only 8g of carbs. Considering its 15g of protein this is REALLY good for me according to the Insulin Resistance Link and Balance See Saw. Why does no one else mention this? A web search seems to confirm this idea of net carbs - WebMD has a nice page about it. They warn to be careful of such labels as “net carbs” though.
This is a very regimented and controlled eating plan. It tells you what to eat and when (and how) to exercise. Like Sugar Busters, someone who needs the discipline and has the willpower and self-control to follow it to the letter will benefit by this book.
During Week 1 you will eat this and here’s how you will exercise. During Week 2 you will eat this and exercise thusly...
The menus are not draconian and suggest the same foods as the other two books. You may eat a tablespoon of peanut butter on a slice of whole wheat bread, for example.
The book explains measurements in general terms - a cup is about the size of your fist, my thumb a tablespoon and my thumb’s tip a teaspoon. That was my favorite bit taken from the book.
I like that it lists specific diabetic-friendly meal-replacement shakes and frozen dinners. The next day I was putting them in my grocery cart and have been dining on them ever since.
Here I learned that my glypizide can sometimes cause weight gain. Hmm.
Not as many recipes as the other two books, but plenty of exercise instructions and illustrations - much more so than the previous two books.
The layout is very strict and militant - which does not describe the diet. Fortunately I am past the first month of getting my blood sugar down to manageable levels, so I do not need the strict instructions of the first few weeks. As with Insulin Resistance, anyone who loves techy number-crunching will like the structure of the book - if not the diet itself!
It mentions a way to look at the nutrition chart that the others do not. You subtract dietary fiber from the total carbs - they don’t really count as carbs. You can also subtract one-half of the sugar alcohol from the total carbs, too. Look at the Atkins’ Peanut Butter Granola Bar (which I eat for breakfast on hectic week-days) - 18g carbs, but 5g is fiber and 11g is sugar alcohol. This makes the bar, according to this book, effectively only 8g of carbs. Considering its 15g of protein this is REALLY good for me according to the Insulin Resistance Link and Balance See Saw. Why does no one else mention this? A web search seems to confirm this idea of net carbs - WebMD has a nice page about it. They warn to be careful of such labels as “net carbs” though.
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