Review of The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes (Hardcover)

So educational and very inspiring!I am buying this for my good family friend who is dealing with Type 2 Diabetes.It's an amazingly comprehensive guide, yet so easy to understand and follow.The Best Life meal plans look delicious.

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Bob Greene has helped millions of Americans become fit and healthy with his life-changing Best Life plan. Now, for the first time, Oprah's trusted expert on diet and fitness teams up with a leading endocrinologist and an expert dietitian to offer a Best Life program tailored to the needs of people with diabetes and pre-diabetes.
Coping with the unique challenges of living with these conditions can feel like a full-time job. That's why The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes takes a gradual, three-phase approach to improving diet and increasing physical activity and provides strategies for staying motivated. While offering clear guidance, the program is flexible enough that you can tailor it to your needs and abilities. The result: A way of living that improves blood sugar and helps you stave off heart disease, neuropathy, and other diabetes- and pre-diabetes-related conditions while reaching and maintaining a healthy weight. This comprehensive yet readable volume offers the information you need to protect your health whether you are controlling your disease simply with diet and exercise, are taking drugs orally, or need injected insulin.
Detailed but flexible meal plans take the guesswork out of eating without making you a slave to the food scale or measuring cups. With complete nutritional analyses, the recipes for budget- and family-friendly dishes such as Vanilla Peanut Butter Smoothie, Cheesy Cornbread, and Slow-Cooked Pork ensure that you never have to sacrifice tasty food. Extensive reference sections, including a complete guide to diabetes drugs and a chart of the carbohydrate value of foods, give you quick answers you can trust, while a log for tracking your blood sugar readings, exercise, and medication helps you stay organized without hassle or added expense.
With The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes, you won't have to let your life be defined by your diagnosis.

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Review of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Healthy Weight Loss, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

I am a big fan of this book. I have read it from cover to cover many times and it has helped me tremendously in my weight loss. I have lost 32 pounds. I have love the fact that it is basic common sense, no tricks or magic potions. Your information wasn't a repeat of many diet programs that tell me only what to eat and when -- this book gave me emotional support and suggestions for eating in difficults situations, as at parties and when feeling lonely. Sure I learned what to eat and when, but this book instilled in me a way to gain control of my eating and myself.I realized that I like to eat as a thin person and the weight has stayed off.


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Shed those pounds the healthy way.

This brand-new edition of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Healthy Weight Loss not only gives readers critical information on nutrition and health-it also delivers everything they need to know about the mental and exercise pieces of the weight-loss puzzle. In addition, it presents a comprehensive overview of today's most popular diets, chapters on such major diet types as low-fat, low-sodium, low-carb, and low-cal, as well as chapters on dieting for kids, dieting for diabetics, dieting for heart health, and more. Best of all, readers will find five unique diet plans to help them lost weight-and keep it off-starting today!

-Features new research on how nutrition and certain foods affect body weight-Expanded information on surgical and pharmaceutical options for weight loss, plus the skinny on supplements and over-the-counter remedies-Upload exercise chapters with more fat-burning exercises and updated charts for calorie burning (including suggestions for meeting the U.S. Government's new exercise recommendations)

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Review of The Hauser Diet: A Fresh Look At Healthy Living! (Hardcover)

The Hauser Diet caught my attention because of Dr. Hauser's success using his injection technique to repair my knee (Prolotherapy). I got my leg strength back with no arthroscopic surgery. Now I'm looking for solutions to low energy. I want the energy of a finely tuned Ferrari.

Like the Hauser's, I too have completed marathons, triathlons, and century bike rides. I'm a 55-year-old student of nutrition and sports training. I learn from athletes like Lance Armstrong and his coach, Chris Carmichael. These athletes backup their ideas about nutrition and training regimens with astounding results.

Athletes write the Hauser Diet too. They research for ways to optimize health, energy and human performance. Research shared in this book broadened my awareness of foods' impact upon my energy. If I knew specifically what foods to choose to live fast and strong why shouldn't I choose well? The authors use a clever analogy to animals' diets to show that humans too must make food choices to optimize energy and health. Then they show in plain English why for my `diet type' certain foods are best for me. I am excited about implementing the research found in The Hauser Diet.

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Tired of quick fix diets that don't work? Do you want more energy to enjoy your life? Do you have a weight problem? Do you believe that "healthy" equals "low fat?"Do you rely on restaurants for most of your meals?Do you want scientific tests to determine your diet? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you need to read this book! We'll explain how eating according to your Diet Type is the real secret to better health. The Hauser Diet: A Fresh Look at Healthy Living, reveals that each of us need to follow an individualized diet. If you've tried and failed at other diets, we will explain the reason why! With over 15 years of clinical experience, we have developed an advanced form of Diet Typing to help start you on the road to wellness now. Learn how serum blood pH and glucose tolerance testing can scientifically determine which diet is best for you! The Hauser Diet will show you how to choose healthy, great tasting foods and cook according to your Diet Type. The Hauser Diet focuses on real food and real answers to the age old question: What diet is best for me?

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Review of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Carb Meals (Paperback)

The book contains a reasonable number of recipes and lots of 'hints' that if you've done ANY reading about low carbohydrate eating, will be superfluous.

The recipes run the gamut of carb counts, though I thought that the bulk of them were much higher carb than is helpful.Following the suggestions in this book and the recipes, it wouldn't be all that hard to hit 80-100++ grams of carb per day... which is simply TOO HIGH for many people who are following low carb lifestyles.

Many recipes call for sugar, white flour, semi-sweet chocolate and cornstarch.Come ON... those are NOT "low carb" ingredients.

This is more or less a repackaged low fat/lower cal cookbook with "low carb" thrown on the cover to try to generate some market share.My copy is being donated to a charity, it isn't worth the space on the shelf for someone interested in real "low carb" cooking.

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Delicious recipes for the low-carb cook. Today's most popular diets rely on cutting down on carbs, but most cooks have difficulty finding scrumptious low-carb alternatives. Enter cookbook authors Lucy Beale and Sandy Couvillon-with more than 330 mouth-watering recipes for the diehard dieter that will appeal to the whole family and are easy to make.

- Includes meal-planning information and charts
- Provides important nutritional information


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Review of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low Sodium Meals (Paperback)

As someone who has to really watch her sodium intake, I'm thrilled that this book has turned out to be so great.I own a number of low sodium guidebooks and cookbooks, so I've become very familiar with this category.I've only tried two of the recipes so far, but each was an "out of the park" home run.The first was Just-Like-Mom's Meat Loaf, and, forgive me, Mom, but it was way better.And at 115.8 mg of sodium per serving, it was right in the sodium range that I'm looking for.It was easy to prepare, turned out to be moist with terrific texture, and had a wonderful sweet-spicy sauce.And there was plenty for meat loaf sandwiches, which is one of the best things about meat loaf, the left overs for sandwiches!The second recipe was Tasty Turkey-Stuffed Peppers, and it couldn't have been easier.Even with only one pound of turkey, you'll definitely need very large bell peppers or at least two medium sized peppers.And, again, the left overs were terrific.Another very appreciated feature is that most of the recipes don't call for a ton of ingredients, which make these recipes quick and easy, and best of all, low sodium!

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Make delicious meals-with just a grain of salt.

When someone is trying to curb his or her sodium intake, preparing food that is tasty and nutritious can be difficult. This book offers readers over 250 recipes the whole family can enjoy. From appetizers to desserts and everything in between, this book focuses on everyday recipes families will love, put together with simple and flavorful salt substitutes.

- Over 250 appealing, easy-to-prepare recipes, including snacks, sauces, and condiments-categories often loaded with sodium
- Covers the many herbs and spices that can be used as salt substitutes and provides advice on how to find the hidden sodium content in unlabeled foods and when eating out
- More than 65 million Americans suffer from hypertension

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