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Diabetes Unpacked – Just Sense and Science, No Sugar Coating
Ed. Zoe Harcombe
Chapters from
Dr Robert Cywes, Dr Jason Fung, Dr Jeff Gerber & Ivor Cummins, Mike Gibbs, Dr Zoë Harcombe PhD, Dr Malcolm Kendrick, Dr Ian Lake, Lars-Erik Litsfeldt, Professor Tim Noakes, Nina Teicholz, Dr David Unwin, Dr Neville Wellington, Jen Whitington, Dr Caryn Zinn PhD.
Compared to a few years ago, there are now a huge number of books around on better approaches to managing and controlling both type 2 diabetes/ metabolic syndrome and high blood glucose. In some ways, the number of books and the growth in information can be off-putting – there’s just so much. Once you start into content on YouTube and similar, the problem gets worse. Where do you start? What’s essential? What’s already out of date?
Diabetes Unpacked goes some way to addressing this. What you get is a sort of “Reader’s Digest” approach – a number of the better known authors, mostly medically qualified, providing a summary/introduction to their work. The chapters are, however, not the same thing over and over again. Each comes at a different aspect of the issue – from simple dietary changes, through “carbohydrate as addiction”, to why the established “eat carbs and take your medication” approach is so difficult to overcome.
If you’re looking for a place to start, and particularly if (like me) you don’t find YouTube videos all that reliable or accessible, this is an ideal book. I can imagine lending it to a lot of people. The various authors, plus the others they reference, should give the new reader a good head start in who is dependable, and what’s best avoided.
I found both Tim Noakes’ chapter on why so many athletes get Type 2, and Robert Cywes’ approach to carbohydrate as an addiction, rather than a nutrition, problem to be particularly thought-provoking, and I’d certainly see myself reading more on those lines.
Recommended.
Ed. Zoe Harcombe
Chapters from
Dr Robert Cywes, Dr Jason Fung, Dr Jeff Gerber & Ivor Cummins, Mike Gibbs, Dr Zoë Harcombe PhD, Dr Malcolm Kendrick, Dr Ian Lake, Lars-Erik Litsfeldt, Professor Tim Noakes, Nina Teicholz, Dr David Unwin, Dr Neville Wellington, Jen Whitington, Dr Caryn Zinn PhD.
Compared to a few years ago, there are now a huge number of books around on better approaches to managing and controlling both type 2 diabetes/ metabolic syndrome and high blood glucose. In some ways, the number of books and the growth in information can be off-putting – there’s just so much. Once you start into content on YouTube and similar, the problem gets worse. Where do you start? What’s essential? What’s already out of date?
Diabetes Unpacked goes some way to addressing this. What you get is a sort of “Reader’s Digest” approach – a number of the better known authors, mostly medically qualified, providing a summary/introduction to their work. The chapters are, however, not the same thing over and over again. Each comes at a different aspect of the issue – from simple dietary changes, through “carbohydrate as addiction”, to why the established “eat carbs and take your medication” approach is so difficult to overcome.
If you’re looking for a place to start, and particularly if (like me) you don’t find YouTube videos all that reliable or accessible, this is an ideal book. I can imagine lending it to a lot of people. The various authors, plus the others they reference, should give the new reader a good head start in who is dependable, and what’s best avoided.
I found both Tim Noakes’ chapter on why so many athletes get Type 2, and Robert Cywes’ approach to carbohydrate as an addiction, rather than a nutrition, problem to be particularly thought-provoking, and I’d certainly see myself reading more on those lines.
Recommended.
