Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars. Revised and updated. Richard K. Bernstein, MD. Little Brown and Co. 2003
Dr. Bernstein is recognized as one of the foremost experts on diabetes and its complications. He has a private practice which is devoted solely to diabetes and prediabetic conditions. He is the author of several books on diabetes.
Here’s the jacket description
Since its first publication in 1997, Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetic Solution has become th bible for diabetics. His groundbreaking approach to diabetes care enables you to take control of the diabetes by regulating your blood sugars. Dr. Bernstein himself is living proof of the success of his methods.
Diagnosed with diabetes at age twelve, he was a successful business eecutive and engineer when he happened to discover a way to normalize his blood sugars, which in turn reversed many of the complications he had suffered from for years. At the age of 45, he entered merdical school in order to publish his findings and eventually treat other diabetics.
In this revised and updated edition, Dr. Bernstein provides an accessible, detailed guide to his revolutionary approach to regulating blood sugars and outlines his methods for preventing or reversing the long-term complications of diabetes.
He offers the most up-to-date information on new products, medications and supplements. He explains the connection between obesity and Type 2 diabetes, shows how to interupt the cycle of obesity and insulin resistance, and reveals a new method for losing weight quickly and easily.
With a strong emphasis on proper diet, Dr. Bernstein tells you what foods to avoid and why. His indispensable discussion of dietary planning includes guidelines for creating a customized meal plan, complete with 40 new gourmet recipes in addition to forty low carb, high protein recipes from the first edition.
Table of contents
Various forwards and prologuesPart 1: Before you start
1. Diabetes, the basics
2. Tests: A Baseline measure of your disease and risk profile
3. Your diabetic tool kit: Supplies you will need and where to get them
4. How and when to measure blood sugar
5. Recording blood sugar data: using the glucograph II data sheet’
6. Strange Biology: Phenomena particular to diabetes that can affect your blood sugar
7. The laws of small numbers
8. Establishing a treatment plan: the basic treatment plans and how we structure them.
Part 2: Treatment
9. The basic food groups, or much of what you’ve been taught about diet is probably wrong
10. Diet guidelines essential to the treatment of all diabetics
11. Creating a customized meal plan
12. Weight loss - if you’re overweight
13. Using self-hypnosis to curb carbohydrate craving or overeating, and introducing a relatively benign “miracle” medication that does the same thing
14. Using exercise to enhance insulin sensitivity
15. Oral insulin-sensitizing agents insuli -mimetic agents, and amylin analog
16. Insulin: the basics of self-injection
17. Important information about various insulins
18. Simple insulin regimes
19. Intensive insulin regimens
20. How to prevent and correct low blood sugars
21. How to cope with dehydration, dehydrating illness, and infection
22. Delayed stomach-emptying: gastroparesis
23. Routine follow-up visits to your physician
24. What you can expect from virtually normal blood sugars
Part 3: Your Diabetic Cookbook
25. Recipes for low carbohydrate meals
Appendices
A. What about the widely advocated dietary restrictions on fat, protein, salt, and the current high-fiber diet
B. Don’t permit hospitailzation or lengthy outpatient procedures to impair your blood sugar control
C. Drugs that may affect blood glucose levels
D. Foot care for diabetics
E. Polycistic ovarian syndrome
Glossary
