The Diabetes Improvement Program: The Ultimate Handbook for Using Foods & Supplements to Slow and Reverse the Complications of Diabetes

by Patrick Quillin

Book The Diabetes Improvement Program.

Genres: Health

Paperback

First published February 1, 2001

About the author

Dr. Patrick Quillin is an internationally recognized expert in the area of nutrition and cancer. He has 30 years experience as a clinical nutritionist, of which 10 years were spent as the Vice President of Nutrition for Cancer Treatment Centers of America where he worked with thousands of cancer patients in a hospital setting.

He has earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees in nutrition and is a registered and licensed dietitian (RD & LD) and Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS) with the American College of Nutrition. He has appeared on over 40 television and 250 radio shows nationwide and is a regular speaker for medical and trade conventions, including ACAM, A4M, American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, and Integrative Medicine. He has been a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Army Breast Cancer Research Group, Scripps Clinic, La Costa Spa, and United States Department of Agriculture; taught college nutrition for 9 years, and worked as a hospital dietitian. He obtained an Investigative New Drug number (48,676) from the Food and Drug Administration in September of 1995 to conduct research on bovine cartilage in advanced cancer patients. His 17 books have sold over 2 million copies and include the best sellers HEALING NUTRIENTS and BEATING CANCER WITH NUTRITION. (now translated into Japanese, Korean and Chinese) He edited the textbook, ADJUVANT NUTRITION IN CANCER TREATMENT and organized the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd international symposia on “Adjuvant Nutrition in Cancer Treatment. He is listed in “Who’s Who in Science”.

Reviews

[Cidney · Rating 1 out of 5]

This turns out to be printed in 1999 so is 24yrs out of date, to remind any future readers there are many more up to date books on diabetes and how to manage it out there. I found this in a bin in a charity shop and should've taken a longer look at it. The picture by the way is of the back of the book, I can't imagine why. Well the front cover isn't much better I suppose!

It says it's a Doctor's Handbook for Using Foods and Supplements to Slow and Reverse the Complications of Diabetes. And it's written in doctor speak which doesn't make it a particularly easy book to read, too much complicated information for your average non-medical patient.

The book is all doom and gloom and I wonder if it was written to frighten diabetics!! It's certainly a complicated book to read anyway. It's called an improvement programme or program but I wasn't really notching up many improvements, apart from eat much less sugar and sugary things, which is the very first thing all new diabetics are taught and is drummed in to you from the very beginning.
The chapters aren't conducive to reading either, it's practically screaming out statistics, graphs and other assorted complicated things at you from the first page, so much so that I began to wonder if I needed a degree in maths to read it. I really wouldn't recommend this book, as I say it is 24yrs out of date and there really are much better books for diabetics out there, the information changes slowly I know, so even books in the last 5yrs or so aren't out of date. It is just that this book is.

[Keith Lawrence · Rating 5 out of 5]

Having had Diabetes for a couple of years and been provided with medicines to 'manage' the illness it was quite refreshing to read this simple book that concentrates on mitigating the illness rather than managing it. Although not promising full reversal of the illness Patrick Quillin gives lots of useful advice on diet that can help diabetics and non-diabetics alike.

[Arun]

i want to read it