David Cavan - Reverse Your Diabetes Diet: The new eating plan to take control of type 2 diabetes, with 60 quick-and-easy recipes

From the reviews of Reverse Your Diabetes by
Dr David Cavan

Inspirational [and] amazing... A bible for all diagnosed type 2 diabetes sufferers!

11/02/15

Id just found out I have T2 diabetes when I came across this book. It is absolutely invaluable... the author is extremely positive and so encouraging about dealing with T2. I thank my lucky stars I came across this book it is my bible.

29/12/15

If you buy one book this has to be it... [it is] an excellent book, very clear... if you have struggled with your diabetes as I have then put the past behind you and start again!

26/04/15

[A] Game changer... my husband read this book and has changed his lifestyle completely. His blood sugar levels have returned to normal in two weeks.

07/12/14

This book is very informative, easy to read and understand, but most of all it calmed my sense of fear after being told I was diabetic. I thoroughly recommend this book and urge you to buy it, I am so pleased I did!

10/05/15

This book in an absolute inspiration from the very first page... I cant recommend this highly enough.

18/09/15

Dr David Cavan MD, FRCP is a medical doctor who worked for 17 years as Consultant Physician at the Bournemouth Diabetes and Endocrine Centre, one of the leading diabetes centres in the UK. He has expertise in all areas of diabetes management, particularly intensive management of type 1 diabetes, dietary management of type 2 diabetes and the development of self-management education programmes. Dr Cavan has also been Clinical Director of Medicine at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Chair of the Education and Psychosocial Section of Diabetes UK, in which positions he contributed to the development of the National Service Framework for Diabetes. In addition, Dr Cavan co-founded the Diabetes Education Network, which supports diabetes centres across the UK and helps them develop structured education programmes. In 2013 he moved to Brussels to join the International Diabetes Federation as Director of Policy and Programmes. In this role he oversees a global network of programmes to promote improved care and education for people with diabetes as well as prevention of type 2 diabetes.

Dr Cavan is the author of Reverse Your Diabetes The step-by-step plan to take control of type 2 diabetes.

What if you could not only manage your diabetes but actually reverse it?

In Reverse Your Diabetes Diet, diabetes expert Dr David Cavan shows you how to modify your diet to help stabilise your blood glucose levels for good. Based on the latest scientific research, this book explains the steps you can take to control type 2 diabetes and potentially reverse it. You will also find:

• 60 no-sugar and low-carbohydrate recipes along with meal plans
• Delicious ideas for breakfast, light lunches and main meals that are suitable for all the family
• Advice on how to check the effect of each recipe on your blood glucose levels

Dedicated to

Penny Cavan,

who taught me the value of real food

Most people say it is the intellect that makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Albert Einstein

What does it take to go against a dogma in medicine when the dogma is wrong? Let us be clear, type 2 diabetes can be reversed. The possibility of reversal is based on much rigorous scientific evidence, yet it is largely overlooked by many organizations in the field of diabetes care. This despite an exploding world-wide epidemic of type 2 diabetes. Not only is the number of people affected growing, but the age at which it affects them is decreasing. Type 2 diabetes in a teenager or even a child was unheard of a few decades ago, but is now becoming common place. When does the care and advice we give to these patients come under scrutiny? When do we admit that we were wrong?

New ideas do not develop because they just sound good. I mean, who would not love the idea of reversing diabetes? The advice needs to be backed by one very important thing: scientific evidence. Successful reversal of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle changes has been demonstrated in multiple studies. The uniting factor in all of them? Cutting carbs.

In my work as an obesity medicine physician and lipidologist at Indiana University Health Arnett, I see many patients who have successfully reversed their diabetes. The biggest barrier I see is that most people when diagnosed have no idea that it is possible. Reverse my diabetes? Get off medications instead of taking more?

In Reverse your Diabetes Diet, Dr Cavan addresses the barrier head on: type 2 diabetes can be reversed and here is how. Helping people understand the why and not just the how is paramount for a true lifestyle change. Much of the advice goes against the standard recommendations, but it is based on science. For this I applaud Dr Cavan. We cannot continue to recommend to people with diabetes that they eat potatoes and cereals and call juice a serving of fruit. Fat has not been the enemy in this disease; it has been the carbohydrates we replaced it with. This book, like its predecessor, Reverse your Diabetes The step-by-step plan to take control of type 2 diabetes, changes the discourse.

Dr Cavans book does a fantastic job of walking the reader through the physiology of diabetes and provides sound advice on which so-called healthy foods are actually anything but. The recipes provide a solid foundation to get started on a new, healthy lifestyle.

I encourage you not only to read this book but also to buy it for a loved one, friend or coworker who is one of the millions and millions living with this condition. Understanding that you have the power to take control of type 2 diabetes instead of it controlling you is the big first step. Enjoy the book and the new lifestyle which it will help you to begin.

Dr Sarah Hallberg, January 2016

Dr Sarah Hallberg is the medical director and founder of the Indiana University-Arnett Health Medical Weight Loss Program that has helped hundreds of patients reverse and prevent type 2 diabetes through low-carb and high-fat nutrition. Dr Hallberg also holds certification by the American College of Sports Medicine as a Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist. She has a masters degree in exercise physiology and has worked as a fitness trainer and instructor.