Six Steps to Optimal Control of Your Adult-Onset (Type 2) Diabetes

Kindle version: The charts are not formatted so that they can be viewed. Even using the largest typeface option, the charts are so tiny as to be useless. As another reviewer noted, the book may have some useful diet suggestions, but it is presented as an exercise in "rambling irrelevance".
I was looking for helpful information that would assist making positive changes in my diet. The author goes on and on about something none of us could have any working knowledge about: early mankind's diet and his/her health as a result of that diet. He bashes ALL grain related carbohydrates and claims that man's discovery of the starches stored inside a kernel of grain has led to our health downfall. Still, I plugged on, expecting that with the turn of just the next page, I would finally discover something that would offer insight and justify the $$ spent on this book. Around the 50% point in the book, I've had enough and have to call "BS" on the author. Up to that point we had been told about the difference between Type 1 diabetes (juvenile) and Type 2 (adult onset,Insulin resistance usually brought on by the exhaustion of our overworked insulin producing beta cells) He brags about how he achieved control of his diabetes though diet modification and walking exercise. But then, around the 50% point, he admits that he has Type 1 diabetes (rare adult onset) and he uses insulin and other drugs to stabilize his blood glucose levels in addition to observing a rather restricted diet. Well, gosh, he can even enjoy sweets on this diet! He just avoids any starches!

What a true waste of my time and hard earned money.

THE first book I've read that explains the history and development of the glycemic diet and LOAD the latter being the science behind the diet plan. chapters 8 thru 16 explain why every person on the planet should be eating like this. We would most likely have half or less diabetics in our society today if so.

Frankly, I was looking for a current publication on this topic, because thinking has changed in re carbohydrate metabolism, etc., however, this author appears to merely ramble to the point where I'm tired of having to flip forward to find any information related to the title, and/or what appeared to be a current list of carbohydrate levels.

And, I put it on my Kindle, which I now realize means it does not belong to me, but did so for convenience because I am health-oriented, but not a diabetic. And, no, I would not invest in this book again, nor in this author.

Second book we have purchased by this author. Some of the same material from the first. It is a great book. We switched to this diet due to our son with autism and his sugar spikes. The benefit is he is doing very well with his mood swings and the rest of the family has adjusted well to this program.

This appears to be an updated publication of Rob's earlier work - The Low-Starch Diabetes Solution. Still great advice, however, and definitely not what diabetics are typically tought. The information confirmed what I discovered over 10 years ago when I was a newly diagnosed insulin-resistant overweight middle-aged woman. Stay away from starch!

Certainly people should watch their carb intake if they have blood sugar problems and glycemic load is more important than the glycemic index. This book has some good advice about how to do that, BUT it is fructose that causes insulin resistance and type ii diabetes, and not glucose. Glucose is only an issue after you have a problem. Type II diabetes was almost unknown, except among rich people, into the 20th century, because sugar was expensive and consumption was low. The only ancient peoples to get sugar diabetes were the ones like the Egyptians who ate a lot of honey and sweet fruits like dates and figs. Hunter gatherers ate starchy tubers, and there is recent evidence they did eat grains. After all, how else would they have been motivated to domesticate them? See Dr. Robert Lustig's books and videos. Also see Weston A.Price's and Richard Johnson's books. If you are young, or your blood sugars are not elevated yet, you may not even need to cut starch--just fructose.

It has been a wonderful and informative source of information. Having recently been taken off my diabetic and cholesterol medicine, after much work on my diet and exercise I use the information provided to help me maintain a healthy and happy life style.

But the author has expanded my knowledge considerably. His book includes not only the typical index number but portion sizes to give an accurate count of carb load in your meal or snack. I started a diet similar to his on my own after reading another Diabetes Solutions book by a different MD almost two years ago. I have kept my A1C score in the five range since I began following not only a low carb but in particular low glycemic load for nearly two years. The recipes included in the book are worth the price of the book. The additional knowledge gained in managing my diet is worth more than 100 times the investment in the book.