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The Weight Loss Plan for Beating Diabetes: The 5-Step Program That Removes Metabolic Roadblocks, Sheds Pounds Safely, and Reverses Prediabetes and Diabetes
The Weight Loss Plan for Beating Diabetes is a five-step plan that shows you how to overcome the metabolic roadblocks that diabetes creates. Using an integrated plan of diet, exercise, nutritional supplementation, medication, and lifestyle modification you’ll lose weight, reverse your diabetes, and look and feel better. Written by leading expert Dr. Frederic Vagnini, medical director of the Heart, Diabetes & Weight Loss Centers of New York, the plan draws from latest clinical studies on diabetes and weight loss and provides recommendations specific to your unique medical history and risk factors. You’ll
Based on the plan that has helped thousands of patients, The Weight Loss Plan for Beating Diabetes will help you lose weight—safely—and keep it off.
Based on the plan that has helped thousands of patients, The Weight Loss Plan for Beating Diabetes will help you lose weight—safely—and keep it off.
240 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2009
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October 25, 2009
If you are diabetic or know someone who it, this book could be a real life-saver. I have several diabetics in my family. I know from first-hand experience how very hard it is for them to lose weight. And yet, losing weight, could be the very best thing someone could do to keep their diabetes in check or even to reverse it.
Dr. Fred Vagnini, one of the world's leaders in alternative medicine, has been working with diabetics for many years. As a result of this work, "Dr. V," as he is know by his patient and many followers, has come up with a innovate five-step plan. Perhaps better than any approach preceding it, his plan helps diabetics and even pre-diabetics lose pounds without having to resort to drastic diets or bypass surgery.
Dr. V's five steps are simple, easy to understand, and they work. After years of struggle, my aunt Elizabeth lost 30 pounds on this system, and has stopped taking insulin for the first time in 25 years. What better endorsement could there be?
Even though I don't have diabetes, I'm worried myself about metabolic syndrome so I read this book and found it chalk full of great information. Herein lies novel insights from a doctor who obviously cares deeply about getting to the root of diabetes and doing something to eradicate it.
This is so refreshing because it seems to me so many other doctors are only interested treating diseases and profiting from them.
I took the self-assessment lifestyle test and discovered a couple things I can do differently that should keep me from becoming pre-diabetic. One has to do with consistency in my exercise program and the other has to do with eating out too often. So, now I'm jogging more, and I'm avoiding the barbeque restaurant I used to visit 3 times a week.
And I can't believe this, but Dr. V has motivated me to eat more salad and raw vegetables, both of which I never thought I would do.
Least my experience be miss-leading, Beating Diabetes is easy to understand but it is not a simplistic "lifestyle" book--it has real depth and plenty of information which I for one was not aware of. For instance, if you take any of the medications that diabetics take, you will find a very important chapter on side effects and how not to mix your meds with the wrong supplements or foods.
Well over 200 pages, there is a lot of "added value" information in the form of charts, lists and self-tests. I found the "week of meals" chart very useful--not that I could exactly follow it, but that it gave me ideas about portions and about interesting and tasty ways to approach meal planning.
The writing style is clear and all the medical terms are defined. Dr. V doesn't speak down to you, nor does he assume you already know the terminology. He has a real knack for educating people by talking (and writing) directly to them.
I totally recommend this book.
Dr. Fred Vagnini, one of the world's leaders in alternative medicine, has been working with diabetics for many years. As a result of this work, "Dr. V," as he is know by his patient and many followers, has come up with a innovate five-step plan. Perhaps better than any approach preceding it, his plan helps diabetics and even pre-diabetics lose pounds without having to resort to drastic diets or bypass surgery.
Dr. V's five steps are simple, easy to understand, and they work. After years of struggle, my aunt Elizabeth lost 30 pounds on this system, and has stopped taking insulin for the first time in 25 years. What better endorsement could there be?
Even though I don't have diabetes, I'm worried myself about metabolic syndrome so I read this book and found it chalk full of great information. Herein lies novel insights from a doctor who obviously cares deeply about getting to the root of diabetes and doing something to eradicate it.
This is so refreshing because it seems to me so many other doctors are only interested treating diseases and profiting from them.
I took the self-assessment lifestyle test and discovered a couple things I can do differently that should keep me from becoming pre-diabetic. One has to do with consistency in my exercise program and the other has to do with eating out too often. So, now I'm jogging more, and I'm avoiding the barbeque restaurant I used to visit 3 times a week.
And I can't believe this, but Dr. V has motivated me to eat more salad and raw vegetables, both of which I never thought I would do.
Least my experience be miss-leading, Beating Diabetes is easy to understand but it is not a simplistic "lifestyle" book--it has real depth and plenty of information which I for one was not aware of. For instance, if you take any of the medications that diabetics take, you will find a very important chapter on side effects and how not to mix your meds with the wrong supplements or foods.
Well over 200 pages, there is a lot of "added value" information in the form of charts, lists and self-tests. I found the "week of meals" chart very useful--not that I could exactly follow it, but that it gave me ideas about portions and about interesting and tasty ways to approach meal planning.
The writing style is clear and all the medical terms are defined. Dr. V doesn't speak down to you, nor does he assume you already know the terminology. He has a real knack for educating people by talking (and writing) directly to them.
I totally recommend this book.
March 25, 2010
First we'll discuss the information content.
I appreciate all of the information given, however, this is all learned in Diabetes Management Classes. If you are Diabetic, you know these classes or appointments I speak of. So really, if you are Diabetic, the first part is not very useful. We already learn this information upon diagnosis. It's good for a look back, but nothing new learned.
The rest of the book I liked more.
I especially loved the recipes in the back. For every one, in my opinion, not just Diabetics, can benefit from eating healthy, proper, square meals. This book can help lead you there. It shows you many examples and gives you suggestions on meal planning.
I made the Breakfast wrap. Though I wasn't blown away, it was better than expected. I was honestly expecting hospital food.
After all is said and done, I am half and half with it. So if you want to pick it up for meal suggestions and better nutritional management, do it. But for Diabetes, I would keep looking.
I appreciate all of the information given, however, this is all learned in Diabetes Management Classes. If you are Diabetic, you know these classes or appointments I speak of. So really, if you are Diabetic, the first part is not very useful. We already learn this information upon diagnosis. It's good for a look back, but nothing new learned.
The rest of the book I liked more.
I especially loved the recipes in the back. For every one, in my opinion, not just Diabetics, can benefit from eating healthy, proper, square meals. This book can help lead you there. It shows you many examples and gives you suggestions on meal planning.
I made the Breakfast wrap. Though I wasn't blown away, it was better than expected. I was honestly expecting hospital food.
After all is said and done, I am half and half with it. So if you want to pick it up for meal suggestions and better nutritional management, do it. But for Diabetes, I would keep looking.
August 1, 2022
I am not the audience for this book because I already know quite a bit about the science behind diabetes and I’ve already been to an endocrinologist, etc. I was looking for more in the nutrition management area, and this book unfortunately didn’t do much for me there. The portions sound unrealistically small (all while crowing over and over that they aren’t), and the food all sounds bland and unappetizing. There are also contradictions like saying you don’t need to count calories but also providing suggestions for how to count calories, because it’s “important.” I’m sure this person is a great doctor and does an awesome job on medications and nutraceuticals, but the exercise and diet portions of the book were laughably lacking.
May 27, 2012
Lots of information. Well organized.
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