Bailey Clare - The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet Cookbook

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eBookNews.SimonandSchuster.com From the team behind The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet Cookbook The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet (Dr. Michael Mosley) The FastLife (Dr.

Michael Mosley with Mimi Spencer and Peta Bee) The FastBeach Diet (Mimi Spencer, foreword by Dr. Michael Mosley) FastExercise (Dr. Michael Mosley with Peta Bee) The FastDiet Cookbook (Dr. Sarah Schenker with Mimi Spencer, foreword by Dr. Michael Mosley) The FastDiet (Dr. Michael Mosley with Mimi Spencer) DR.

CLARE BAILEY is a general practitioner and the founder of Parenting Matters, an organization that helps hundreds of parents become more confident through courses and one-on-one consultations. DR. SARAH SCHENKER is a registered dietitian and nutritionist who has served on both professional and government committees. She now combines her sports nutrition workconsulting for football clubs in the UKwith regular appearances on television and writing for scientific journals, as well as for newspapers, magazines, and websites. MEET THE AUTHORS, WATCH VIDEOS AND MORE AT SimonandSchuster.com authors.simonandschuster.com/Clare-Bailey
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Originally published in Great Britain in 2016 by Short Books as The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet Recipe Book Published by arrangement with Short Books Limited All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information, address Atria Books Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. First Atria Paperback edition December 2016 and colophon are trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866-506-1949 or . The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. For more information or to book an event, contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at www.simonspeakers.com.

Cover design by Anna Dorfman Cover photograph by Svry/Shutterstock Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bailey, Clare, author. | Schenker, Sarah, author. Title: The 8-week blood sugar diet cookbook / Dr. Clare Bailey with Dr. Sarah Schenker. | Revision of: 8-Week blood sugar diet recipe book. | Revision of: 8-Week blood sugar diet recipe book.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016038197 (print) | LCCN 2016039705 (ebook) | Subjects: LCSH: Reducing dietsRecipes. | Sugar-free dietRecipes. | DiabetesDiet therapyRecipes. | BISAC: COOKING / Health & Healing / Weight Control. | HEALTH & FITNESS / Diets. | LCGFT: Cookbooks. | LCGFT: Cookbooks.

Classification: LCC RM222.2 .B342 2016 (print) | LCC RM222.2 (ebook) | DDC 641.5/63837dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016038197 ISBN 978-1-5011-6053-0 ISBN 978-1-5011-6055-4 (ebook)

On my first day at medical school I sat nervously with a hundred other students in a huge lecture hall while the dean gave his usual introductory talk. It was a long time ago but I can remember two things he said. Firstly, based on previous experience, he predicted that four of us in the room would marry. He was right: I met my wife that day (more about her later). The other memorable thing he said was that, while we would learn an enormous amount during our medical training, in time much of it would become out of date.

Which is why it is so important for doctors (and the rest of us) to try and keep up with the latest science. I was mindful of this when, in 2012, I went to see my GP with a minor complaint, had a routine blood test, and discovered that I was a type 2 diabetic. I was told that I should start on medication. But I wasnt convinced that my only option was to spend a lifetime on drugs. So I started researching alternative approaches. I came across something called intermittent fasting and, the more I dug, the more interesting it looked.

I finally decided to make a documentary about intermittent fasting for the BBC science series, Horizon , with myself as the subject. In the course of making the documentary I put myself on what I called a 5:2 diet, whereby you eat normally five days a week and cut your calories down to around 600 calories for two days. On this diet I lost about 20 pounds in 12 weeks and my blood sugar levels went back to normal. I later cowrote a book, the FastDiet , which became an international bestseller. That book was not, however, aimed at diabetics and I wondered at the time why losing the weight had produced such a dramatic impact on my blood sugar levels. Then, in 2015, I met up with Dr.

Roy Taylor of Newcastle University, who is one of Europes leading diabetes experts. Its been known for some time that too much fat around your middle (so-called visceral fat) greatly increases your risk of diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure. Our rapidly expanding waists have been a major driver behind the huge rise in rates of type 2 diabetes in recent times. Ideally, your waist (measured around your belly button) should be less than half your height. In other words, if you are 5 feet 9 inches tall, your waist should be less than 35 inches. Visceral fat is particularly bad for you because it clogs up your liver and your pancreas (the organ that produces the hormone insulin, which regulates blood sugar levels).

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