Editors at Readers Digest - Reverse Diabetes Forever Newly Updated: How to Shop, Cook, Eat and Live Well with Diabetes

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Title: Reverse diabetes forever newly updated : how to shop, cook, eat and live well with diabetes / editors at Readers Digest.

Description: 2nd [edition]. | New York, NY : Readers Digest [2016] | Includes index. | Includes indexes.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016025576 | ISBN 9781621453277 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Diabetes. | Diabetes--Diet therapy--Recipes. |

Low-carbohydrate diet. | Weight loss. | Exercise--Health aspects. | BISAC:

HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Diabetes. | COOKING / Health & Healing /

Diabetic & Sugar-Free.

Classification: LCC RC660.4 .R48 2016 | DDC 616.4/620654--dc23

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How do you reduce the impact of type 2 diabetes on your life? Some of the answers will surprise you. Inside this newly updated edition of Reverse Diabetes Forever youll discover the many lifestyle tweaks you can make to help stabilize blood sugar and improve your health.

Eat More Food

Fill your plate with these fresh, healthy choices, and you can actually eat more food and still reduce weight and stabilize blood sugar!

Sleep Longer

Retrain yourself to sleep a full seven to eight hours per night, and your body chemistry will respond in all the right ways!

Focus on Fun

The exercise prescription for diabetes is mostly about enjoyment: being outdoors, taking long walks, stretching, biking, dancing, and being active. No gyms required!

Enjoy Dessert

Cap off a day of healthy eating with a naturally sweet, nutritionally balanced treat, and your health will only benefit. We provide the recipes!

Sound good? Then turn the page and discover proven ways based on the latest research to stabilize blood sugar and keep your diabetes under control.

Introduction

You cant hop into a car and head out on the highway without first learning how to drive, right? Well, the same is true for managing diabetes. Until you learn how to take proper care of yourself and your condition, controlling diabetes will be as challenging as negotiating a rush-hour freeway without knowing where the brake is.

But heres the good news: Unlike practically any other medical condition on the planet, type 2 diabetesthe type that develops over time, and makes up roughly 95 percent of all casesputs you in the drivers seat. Thats because the best way to manage type 2 diabetes is by making small changes to your everyday lifestyle. No surgery, no hospitals, no tough, mentally exhausting medical regimens are necessary, if you steer your lifestyle properly. Every moment, every day, and every week you have the opportunity to make changes that will help diminish diabetes!

If you have diabetes and arent taking measures to stop it in its tracks, theres no time to waste. Diabetes is a serious disease, but its well within your power to control both high blood sugar and the complications it can cause. If youre at risk for diabetes or uncertain whether you have it, get the tests you need. Then get your game on! Steps like eating right, losing some weight, sleeping well, managing stress, and taking medication or insulin to reach your treatment goals will make you feel better physically and mentallynow and over the long haul.

Heres where your journey to turn back diabetes begins. Youll learn what you can do

RIGHT NOW

TODAY

THIS WEEK

THIS MONTH

THIS YEAR

AND FOREVER+

to reverse diabetes.

You can look at diabetes in two ways. One is the big picture, which, frankly, is not very pretty: Across the country (and throughout the world), rates of diabetes have grown to epidemic proportions. Between 1980 and 2014, the number of Americans newly diagnosed with diabetes has tripled; today, roughly 29 million Americans have the disease, or roughly one in every 10 people. Just as alarming, rates among children are climbing as well. Even scarier is that an estimated 86 million Americans aged 20 years or older have prediabetes.

The second way you can look at diabetes is the small-scale picture: the scale of oneyou. Here, the news is much brighter: More than ever before, diabetes is a disease you can control and even conquer. And the tools available to help you are getting better all the time.

Its the silver lining in this cloud of gloom and doomthe fact that few serious diseases allow you to fight back as much as diabetes does. If you take the right steps to keep the condition under your control, you can live a full and active life. In fact, some people who successfully turn their diabetes around say that they now feel healthier overall than they have in years.

There is also an upside to the diabetes epidemic: Chronic diseases that threaten huge numbers of people also capture the interest of researchers (not to mention the companies and federal health agencies that fund them). As a result, weve seen significant advances in the way doctors understand, prevent, and treat diabetes. If you need evidence of that, just look at how new findings have improved three key components of diabetes treatment: