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WE INVITE READERS of The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle to access extensive supplementary materials on our website. You can download articles, view success stories, get recipes, connect with other readers, and find many other exclusive resources.

www.diabetesmiracle.org
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WE GRATEFULLY DEDICATE this book to two of Lifestyle Center of Americas legends: Layton Sutton, MD, and Ruth (Selby) Brown Martin.

Layton was a member of our board from its inception in 1963 until his death in 2007 after a valiant battle against cancer. He served as its chairman from 1998 to 2004, and president thereafter. His leadership and quiet, thoughtful diplomacy were prized by all of us.

Ruthie grew up with Lifestyle Center of Americas founder, Otey Johnson, and was his childhood chum and lifelong confidant. She is an inspiration to us, and an indefatigable ambassador of our mission.

Stop Diabetes Before It Stops You

COULD YOU CALL IT A CURE?

CONGRATULATIONS! BY PICKING up this book youve taken the first step toward a lifestyle that is a big leap in beating your diabeteseven vanquishing its nasty ravages, and soon.

Were going to assume that you or someone you care about has diabetes or is worried about it. You might be suffering right now from the devastating complications of uncontrolled diabetesbad eyes, beat-up kidneys, a weak heart, and numb or painful feet. Maybe youve been told you have prediabetes. Or maybe you still feel okay, but youre aware that your extra pounds, your high cholesterol, and your up-and-down blood sugar levels are going to get you in the end.

There are more than 21 million people with diabetes in the United States7 percent of the population. More than 41 million more people have prediabetes. Were not talking about a minor inconvenience here or even just a run-of-the-mill epidemic. Diabetes is a serious, chronic, pervasive disease that has rapidly grown into a crisis and will soon become a bona fide catastrophe. We probably dont have to tell you that. After all, your own life is on the line.

Sound pretty grim? Well, we have great news. Theres an excellent chance that if you follow our counsel you can stop the progress of diabetes in its tracks and even reverse some of the damage that diabetes might have already done to your body. We know this is a radical claim, but weve seen it time and again with thousands of our own patients. In the 1990s, when Dean Ornish, John McDougal, and Caldwell Esselstyn, our colleagues in lifestyle medicine, proved that coronary artery disease could be reversed with a healthy, low cholesterol dietand in most cases with no cholesterol-lowering drugsmany mainstream doctors scoffed. Now the evidence is overwhelming. Ornish, McDougal, and Esselstyn pioneered the lifestyle medicine approach to the treatment of coronary artery disease, and weve done the same with diabetes.

HEALING VS. CURING

HEALING and curing are related but not equivalent concepts, and they should not be confused.

Curing is the province of the physician in an acute medical care setting. Doctors are trained to try to cure disease and alleviate pain. Within the existing system, a good patient is patient; he or she is a passive recipient of the physicians art and skill.

HeaLing is something quite different. Healing is something a physician cant do for a patient, no matter how hard he or she might want to. Healing can come only from within each individual. Healing is the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual process of becoming whole again. At Lifestyle Center of America, and in this book, were interested in both healing and curing.

For the past 11 years at Lifestyle Center of America (LCA), our not-for-profit intensive health resort in southern Oklahoma, weve proven that if you follow the 30-Day Diabetes Miracle program of eating the right kinds of foods, getting active in the right way, and thinking the right way, you can conquer diabetes just as dramatically and very likely with much less medicationeven much less insulin. For years, our patients have been asking us to put our intensive 18-day program into a book so millions of diabetes patients could learn at home. Well, here it is. Were going to focus on people with type-2 diabetes, but the information can be very relevant for those with type-1 diabetes as well, for reasons we will explain later. Whether youve been diagnosed with type-1 diabetes, type-2 diabetes, prediabetes, insulin resistance, syndrome X, or metabolic syndrome, the 30-Day Diabetes Miracle program will help you feel better; worry less; live a fuller, more meaningful life; and assume responsibility for your health and future. We call that quality of life. And well show you how to get it now and how to hold onto it forever.

How much can we promise? Most doctors and patients still think of diabetes as incurable. We dont exactly agree. What would you call it if your doctor were eventually unable to detect any evidence of diabetes, or see any sign of the disease process at work? Could you call it a genuine cure? That would be your call.

DIABETES: Good News, for Once

MUCH OF WHAT you hear or read about diabetes is riddled with myths, ignorance, and misconceptions. Here are a few encouraging truths about diabetes, right up front.

Diabetes is not a death sentence. A diagnosis of type-1 or type-2 diabetes does not mean you will have to die earlier than your peers who do not have diabetes. While its true that the risk for death among people with diabetes is about twice that of people without diabetes of similar age, your lifestyle choices about diet and physical activity can have a tremendous influence on your health, well-being, and longevity. And the lifestyle option is often much better than the drug option. If you make well-informed choices, diabetes doesnt have to affect how healthy you are, how good you feel, and how long you live. In fact, as a consequence of following the 30-Day Diabetes Miracle program, theres a good chance youll be able to live even longer than your peers who dont have diabetes, despite your diabetes!

Having diabetes does not mean you will have awful complications. Your diabetes diagnosis does not mean you will eventually go blind, require dialysis, and suffer the trauma of amputations. The commonsense lifestyle changes in diet and activity outlined in The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle can drastically reduce and often eliminate such complications.

Diabetes is not primarily a genetic disease. Because your parents had diabetes does not mean you will, too. The only certainty is that if you live your life the way your parents did, youll increase your chances of getting diabetes yourself and of suffering the way they did.

Type-2 diabetes is not something you catch like the flu. While its true that 1.5 million new cases of adult diabetes will be diagnosed this year, almost all of these people developed their chronic disease through the foods they ate and other lifestyle choices, all of which were totally within their control. Were going to help you make the best choices.

A diagnosis of type-2 diabetes does not mean you will have to take large doses of medicine for the rest of your life. Medications, including large doses of insulin, should not be the basis for diabetes care. Although some diabetes medicines can be effective and helpful, they are usually overprescribed, and often unnecessary, provided the patient is willing to make important lifestyle changes. A majority of our patients on the 30-Day Diabetes Miracle program significantly reduce or eliminate at least some of their diabetes medicinesincluding their insulinafter just a short time. This is true even for people with type-1 diabetes: They must take some insulin in order to live, but we find that, for most of these patients, less insulin leads to better health. We also find that our patients are able to reduce or eliminate many of their other medicines (such as for cholesterol and high blood pressure). There is no magic pill or secret cure for diabetes; the power comes from the

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