Dennis Pollock - You Can Achieve Normal Blood Sugar: Discover the Surprising Results from Over 100 Blood Sugar Tests

HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS

EUGENE , OREGON

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You Can Achieve Normal Blood Sugar

Copyright 2019 by Dennis Pollock

Published by Harvest House Publishers

Eugene, Oregon 97408

www.harvesthousepublishers.com

ISBN 978-0-7369-7597-1 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-0-7369-7598-8 (eBook)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Pollock, Dennis, author.

Title: You can achieve normal blood sugar / Dennis Pollock.

Description: Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishers, [2019]

Identifiers: LCCN 2018049667 (print) | LCCN 2018052052 (ebook) | ISBN 9780736975988 (ebook) | ISBN 9780736975971 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: DiabetesPopular works. | DiabetesTreatmentPopular works. | BISAC: HEALTH & FITNESS / Healthy Living.

Classification: LCC RC660.4 (ebook) | LCC RC660.4 .P657 2019 (print) | DDC 616.4/62dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018049667

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To Benedicta,

my partner in ministry and my partner in life.

Contents

B efore we get into the meat of this book, I need to give you both a spoiler and a warning. The spoiler is this: If you are serious about getting your blood sugar under control, you are almost certainly going to need to reduce your carbohydrate intake. As you read through the book and consider the many blood sugar tests I will be sharing with you, I dont think youll have any doubt about this.

The warning is this: If you do change your diet and you are on medication for diabetes or taking insulin, youre going to need to carefully monitor your blood sugar levels and work with a good diabetes doctor. Making major changes in your diet, especially in the carbohydrates you eat daily, will very likely require you to alter the dosage of your medication or the insulin youre taking. In most cases you will have to reduce your dosages, but your doctor will help you decide this.

The good news is that many with type 2 diabetes may be able to eventually do away with their medication altogether. But you need to do this under the care of a doctor. I am not a doctor, and I have no business telling you what to do, what to eat, or how much medication to take. I can and will share with you what has worked for me and enabled me to steer clear of the diabetes that came rushing at me like a freight train many years ago. Whether you employ some of my own ideas and principles should be between you and your doctor. One thing I do believe this book and my story can do for you is give you new hope and motivation. Diabetes is not unbeatable! It may be a monster, but with nearly all type 2 diabetics, it is a monster with a chink in its armor. Many of us who have known its ferocity have beaten it. No, we cannot go back to eating huge bowls of ice cream and guzzling down super-sized sodas, but as long as we behave ourselves, diabetes must forever lurk in the shadows, like some rabid wolf, fearful of the bonfire that we have created for our own protection.

Read through this book. Talk to your doctor about it. Begin the process of finding your own path to healing and deliverance. And pray for Gods wisdom.

I should be a full-scale, flaming, raging diabetic by now. And I would be if it were not for certain interventions I employed as I searched desperately to find answers to the terrible disease that devoured my mothers health and quality of life in her last years, and eventually shortened her life. Three major factors led me out of the morass of runaway blood sugar and into the place I am todaya place of relatively normal blood sugar and freedom from those symptoms and complications that diabetics routinely suffer. Those three factors are: 1) prayer and Gods grace, 2) reading and research, and 3) an obsession to test my blood sugar after eating various meals and foods to determine precisely which foods were safe, which were iffy, and which were dangerous for me.

My experience is personal to me, of course. It isnt my place to tell you which direction you must go in your quest to quell the raging fires of diabetes in your body. But I can share my experiences and the answers I found in the hope that, at the very least, you can be inspired that there are answers and solutions to diabetes. If you find some things that might help you in the pages of this book, share them with your diabetes doctor, and ask if any of them could work for you. I receive emails from people asking me to tell them what changes they should make in their lifestyles and diet, and I never give specific advice. Again, I am not a doctor, and I am not going to tell anyone to treat themselves. But one thing I know: I was headed for full-scale diabetes, and now I am not. I have staved off diabetes for the last 17 years, and at this point it looks as though I will live out my life without ever crossing the demarcation line that separates nondiabetics from diabetics. I am grateful.

I have written two previous books about blood sugar. The first one, Overcoming Runaway Blood Sugar , was an overview of what I discovered and the answers I found that enabled me to get my blood sugar back down into the normal range. The second book, 60 Ways to Lower Your Blood Sugar , was primarily a collection of some of the dietary tips and tricks I have learned along the way as I have battled to keep my blood sugar low. After writing the second book, I was sure I had said all there was for me to say. But over time I realized that, despite all the diabetes books available, there was one approach I almost never saw. This had to do with demonstrating the effects of various foods, particularly carbohydrates, on blood sugar. Plenty of people have written about this, but almost nobody has written an entire book, loaded with overwhelming evidence through scores of blood sugar tests, that showed conclusively and irrefutably the simple truth that carbohydrates raise blood sugar like nothing else.

It has long been apparent to me that the greatest need for most diabetics and prediabetics is not so much knowledgethere is a mountain of knowledge about diabetes available today and it is constantly growing. The diabetics ultimate need is motivationhe or she must somehow find the want-to to make the necessary sacrifices, substitutions, modifications, and lifestyle changes that will keep runaway blood sugar at bay and result in a long, healthy, and complication-free life. I believe that this book can be useful in supplying that motivation. We must have more than mere diabetic sermons preached to us; we must see with our eyes and really get the fact that our blood sugar is essentially in our hands. We can change our ways and drive blood sugars down, or we can stay on the same reckless, unhealthy, intemperate, uninformed path that has brought us to the precipice of diabetic disaster. As we read of test after test that confirm and reconfirm the folly of high-refined-carb, high-sugar living, and the efficacy of a low-carb lifestyle, we will hopefully begin to find the resolve to make the necessary changes and watch our blood sugars transformed from erratic and out of control to reasonable and very close to normal. And that is a wonderful thing.