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Diabetes & Hypoglycemia: Your Natural Guide to Healing with Diet, Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, Exercise, an d Other Natural Methods
Now You Can Combat Diabetes and Hypoglycemia—Naturally!
Struggling with frequent headaches, fatigue, irritability, or depression? Your body may be fighting a blood sugar imbalance. Diabetes and hypoglycemia, the major causes of blood sugar imbalance, are the most common of all diseases and can lead to chronic metabolic problems. Often, traditional medications treat only specific symptoms of these diseases without treating the whole body. Diabetes and Hypoglycemia offers the answers you need to take control of your blood sugar metabolism by using natural, healthful methods.
Dr. Michael T. Murray is one of the world’s foremost authorities in nutritional and natural medicine. Author of the bestselling books Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine and The Complete Book of Juicing, Dr. Murray has inspired many to begin a more natural way of treating disease. In Diabetes and Hypoglycemia , Murray presents a step-by-step approach, offering advice on topics such
·Early symptoms and proper diagnosis
·Lifestyle choices and exercise
·Dietary guidelines, including 25 recipes
·Herbal remedies for blood sugar control
·Blood sugar imbalance and related cardiovascular diseases
·and much, much more!
By learning the facts about using natural, whole-body alternative, you can break the cycle of medication and begin a healthful, balanced way of life!
Struggling with frequent headaches, fatigue, irritability, or depression? Your body may be fighting a blood sugar imbalance. Diabetes and hypoglycemia, the major causes of blood sugar imbalance, are the most common of all diseases and can lead to chronic metabolic problems. Often, traditional medications treat only specific symptoms of these diseases without treating the whole body. Diabetes and Hypoglycemia offers the answers you need to take control of your blood sugar metabolism by using natural, healthful methods.
Dr. Michael T. Murray is one of the world’s foremost authorities in nutritional and natural medicine. Author of the bestselling books Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine and The Complete Book of Juicing, Dr. Murray has inspired many to begin a more natural way of treating disease. In Diabetes and Hypoglycemia , Murray presents a step-by-step approach, offering advice on topics such
·Early symptoms and proper diagnosis
·Lifestyle choices and exercise
·Dietary guidelines, including 25 recipes
·Herbal remedies for blood sugar control
·Blood sugar imbalance and related cardiovascular diseases
·and much, much more!
By learning the facts about using natural, whole-body alternative, you can break the cycle of medication and begin a healthful, balanced way of life!
- GenresNutrition
176 pages, Paperback
First published January 24, 1994
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Michael T. Murray
91 books23 followersDr. Murray is one of the world’s leading authorities on natural medicine. He has published over 30 books featuring natural approaches to health. His research into the health benefits of proper nutrition is the foundation for a best-selling line of dietary supplements from Natural Factors, where he is Director of Product Development. He is a graduate, former faculty member, and serves on the Board of Regents of Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington.
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March 10, 2012
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.
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.
July 26, 2013
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.
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.
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