Review of The Canadian Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook (Paperback)

First letme say that there are many books written on Type 2 diabetes but most are US authors. Its great to have a book written for Canadian.There are some subtle differences on how the US and Canadians approach diabetes as well as some of the products that are available.
This book offers up the standard fair for diabetics.So like many of the other books on the market it really is not that much difference.What sets the book apart is that it uses Canadian References, measurements and guidelines.This is important to know when you are trying to research the diease.
If you are going to get one book and are Canadian this book would be the one to buy, it offers up a wide variety of subjects.From What is Diabetes, diet, exercise, medicines and how to live with the diasease.

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YOUR GUIDE TO HEALTHY LIVING
"Enabling self-management is what The Canadian Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook is all about...a comprehensive resource that is there for you when you need the right information at the right time!""-Michael Evans, M.D., CCFP
The only Canadian reference on Type 2 diabetes, The Canadian Type 2 Diabetes Sourcebook, 2nd edition has been updated with all the latest recommendations and research. The ultimate resource, this book provides everything you need to know about this disease. Learn how Type 2 diabetes affects your body. Find out how to assemble the best health care team and how to make lifestyle changes that will keep you healthy.
INSIDE:

• Diabetes basics - what it is, who is at risk, starting facts on its prevalence
• How to maintain a healthy eating and activity plan
• How to accurately test your blood sugar and manage the highs and lows
• The latest on diabetes medications
• Information on special circumstance: obesity, pregnancy, menopause, hormone replacement therapy
• A new section on diabetes and aging
• The unique challenges faced by aboriginal Canadians
• Type 2 diabetes complications - heart disease, nerve damage, circulatory problems - and how to prevent them
• A glossary of organizations and Web Sites dedicated to Type 2 diabetes

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Review of Thrive: A Guide to Optimal Health & Performance Through Plant-Based Whole Foods, Expanded Second Edition (Paperback)

This book epitomizes what all good instruction books should be.It is clearly and concisely written.The reasoning is well explained and backed up with both personal experience and scientific reports (there is a good reference section).

Brendan starts with his own story - "you can't compete without eating meat" - and proceeds to prove the naysayers very wrong.He explains, in a clear fashion, what one is doing through intensive training (stress) and how to make your diet help your performance.

He clearly explains the rationale behind a raw vegan diet as well as why he uses certain additional dietary supplements such as Maca.He provides menus and recipes in the book.

For anyone following the healthy path of raw vegan food this is a great reference.Too bad other books don't have a similar 'bang for the buck' as this.

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Thrive: A guide to optimal health and performance through plant-based whole foods, second edition (112 pages, Oceanside Publishing) is a concise and practical guide to reducing nutritional stress by incorporation more plant-based whole foods. The reduction of nutritional stress provides the body a platform for improved overall health which includes; a reduction in biological age, improved athletic performance, better sleep quality and reduced sugar cravings. Thrive also provides the athlete a sound strategy for transitioning to a high performance plant-based diet. It includes a sample meal plan and 15 unique, nutritionally balanced, delicious whole food recipes, all gluten free.
Dr. Zoltan Rona, medical editor of the Encyclopaedia of Natural Healing and author of the foreword of Thrive, highly recommends the book, and writes in the foreword, "I think that after reading this book, you will no doubt be convinced that a plant-based whole foods diet is the true future of optimal health."

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Review of The Vice-Busting Diet: A 12-Week Plan to Break Your Worst Food Habits and Change Your Life Forever (Hardcover)

To sum it up in just a simple phrase, Id say " Changing your life is an understatement for what this book does"!!! Who would have thought that my life would come full circle in the last 5 years! In 2001, I sat at this very computer reading the cold hard facts about how vices control our life! The definition of vice was put as simple as anything that controls you and hinders your desired outcome. My biggest desire in the world was to become a healthy person who could dream big and THEN make those dreams become a reality! My biggest hinderence was my LOVE for cupcakes! It was as simple as giving up my first vice in order to start a journey that would last a lifetime. It has been 5 years since I started this long journey with Julia Havey and this road has led me from a 350 pound admirer of this successful weight loss author, to a 170 pound friend of this warm hearted mother, wife, and honest woman! She has been by my side through ups and downs, both weight loss related and life related, and help keep my head high throughit all. This book is a real life approach to helping someone reach their dreams and goals. It teaches you to bust your vices one at a time and more importantly to learn to belive in yourself! Without the self confidence that you learn to feel, success would not be the final outcome. If I had to suggest one book that would truely fit its title, this would be it. It will help you change your life in every aspect of the word!!!! Its a simple, doable, believable approach to weight loss, and once youve read the book, you will know that "IF you dream it, YOU CAN DO IT!" I dedicated my time and effort to this woman 5 years ago, and believed in myslef enough to bust all my vices, and go on to lose 185 pounds in less than 2 years and have been living a life of confidence, health and love for myself for the last 3 years!In october of this year I will marry the love of my life, and Julia will be standing up next to me in my wedding. Life has come full circle thanks to her, and if you are looking for a plan that will work not only to lose weight, but to change your life FOREVER, please read and follow this plan for 12 weeks, and then spread your wings and fly!

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Julia Havey has lost 130 pounds and kept it off for ten years. She's discovered the key to losing weight and keeping it off-small changes add up to big results. Unlike other diets that ask you to overhaul eating habits or eliminate food groups, The Vice-Busting Diet allows readers to discover what's getting in the way of weight loss. Whether it's soda, fast food, sweets or another temptation, Julia Havey teaches you how to eliminate it and replace it with a healthy alternative--with practical advice and a healthy dose of motivation.

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Review of The Secret Weight-Loss Scrolls (Paperback)

This book with it's fun approach, has given me both the technical background information AND most importantly an easy way to maintain a 30-40-30 plan for eating- I love the palm, fist, thumb approach!

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"The Secret Weight-Loss Scrolls" is a unique approach tolearning how to eat healthy, lose weight, and improve health problemssuch as heart disease and diabetes. Written in a humorous storyformat, the reader follows the lives of four family members. Lifeseems great until the father, Bob Block, has an annual physical andfound out he had experienced a previous "silent" heart attack. After aseries of tests, he is told to start eating the 30/40/30 way (zonediet) and exercise, or he wouldn't live to see his two kids graduatefrom high school.Faced with this life threatening dilemma, he andhis wife, Betty Block, decide to take the advice of their medicalprovider and change the eating habits of the entire family...thisturns out to be far more difficult than imagined.After nominalsuccess one month later, the kids (Billy and Barbie) were beginning tocomplain, and Bob found it hard to stick to the same regimen of foodseach day. Barbie, their 10 year old "whiz kid," began a quest tosimplify this seemingly complicated way of eating. Also, she wasmissing her sweets and wanted to have them back as well.
The story unfolds through the Internet. Barbie comes across a sitethat tells of four mysterious scrolls found in the Tibetan Mountainsin 1955. As it turns out, these scrolls simplify how to do the sameway of eating that they had been struggling to do up to thatpoint. Readers can learn how to easily eat this way by following thesteps from the four scrolls. This first part of the book is a fastread, no more than an hour of easy, light, and fun reading. From here,the reader can go through the step by step lessons and take thequizzes at the end of each lesson. Overall, the book starts outinnocently simple appearing and entertaining, then gradually enticesyou to learn more before you know it! Nutrition usually is a very dryand at times boring subject. This book adds a new twist in mixingeducation and entertainment. Readers come away with a smile on theirface while having learned a new way of eating for life!

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