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Summary: This book is a life-saver for diabetics.
Review: This is the definitive study of both types I and II of diabletes. It debunks most of the misinformation handed out by the medical profession regarding diabetes and it is written by a physician with first-hand knowledge. I have been diagnosed with type-II diabetes six years ago, am a few days short of 63 years old, and have been able to normalize my blood sugar levels for the first time since then with the help of Dr. Bernstein's book. I am down to 9 units of injected insulin daily. My morning reading is now around 118, and my afternoon reading before dinner is around 90! My diabetic symptoms are rapidly disappearing, including locked shoulders and heart palpitations. BP: 140/75 pulse 70. I am actually losing weight for the first time in over 10 years. If you have diabetes and don't buy this book, then you don't want to get well. I am contemptuous of most doctors, but I say to Dr. Bernstein: "Thank you, thank you, thank you. You are a true scientist!"Michael Nattenberg natten@qnis.net or mike@nattenberg.com
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Summary: "Must read" for every patient and doctor treating diabetes!
Review: Diagnosed with diabetes this book provided me with "new" options for diabetes, controlling my diabetes without insulin. It has also opened the eyes of medical doctors who have been treating me personally. It provides the latest treatment philosphies from a remarkable man who became a diabetes medical specialist late in life in order to better understand and treat this potential killer. This book provides the self-empowerment you need to overcome a much dreaded disease!
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Summary: This is truly a life -saving and life changing book.
Review: Think of all the questions you wanted answered and didn't know how to form the question, or who to ask. They are more rhan likely answered in this comprehensive and well researched book. The effect of carbohydrates on blood sugar, how to keep blood sugars normal around the clock, a diabetic's kit, how to care for yourself when ill. can neuropathy get better, and more. I have had Type 2 diabetes long-term. Since reading Dr. Bernstein's book, I have normaized my blood sugars (average--97), lowered my HBA1c from 10.8--high risk to 5.3--normal. Neuropathy and resultant heel ulcers are reversing (I'm out of orthopedic shoes,) imbalance is gne, eyesight has improved, and I am healthy and energized. You owe it to yourself to buy this life-saving and life-changing book.
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Summary: Never thought I could, but I was WRONG!!
Review: After 20 years of being a Type II diabetic, I had resigned myself to living with "OK" control...blood sugar levels averaging 200. Heck, my doctors were happy when I could manage to maintain 120 for a couple of weeks at a time. Since adhering to the dietary "rules" described in Dr. Bernstein's book (I started in October), my blood sugar levels have averaged 88; my energy level is higher, scratches and scrapes are healing faster, and my numb feet have regained a small level of feelings (not bad after loosing all feeling a number of years ago). While I don't expect this new level of control to cure everything that I managed to "screw-up" over the past twenty years, even the little steps are a major triumph. I recommend this book to ANYONE that has trouble controling blood sugars and has blindly trusted the traditional methods of diabetes control.
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Summary: Excellent. Breaks the old myths wide open.
Review: Dr. Bernstein has made the sugar level normalization process simple to understand and easy to follow. It just takes motivation to make you see that this new lifestyle is your best hope of surviving diabetes to a ripe old age. I recommend this as a starter book for anyone newly diagnosed with diabetes and a dose of reality for long time diabetes patients who have yo-yo sugar levels. It works! Anyone can do it and live a full live at the same time.
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Summary: The ONLY book that Clearly Helps & Explains!
Review: I have read scores of books on the subject of diabetes and diabetes control. The Diabetes Solution is the ONLY book that I've read that unambiquously explains everything you need to know to get into control. I have sought guidance from books and doctors, and the ONLY logical discussion and explanations I've received that immediately helped me, help myself, gain immediate control, was this outstanding book. Buy it, borrow it from your library...whatever...get it and read it and you'll understand this tough disease, or condition, as some nitnoids insist on calling it. Opinions that I now hold to be constructive advice. "Eat Crackers" - NOPE! Wrong... "Eat Cereal" - NOPE! Wrong... Instead, test blood sugar elevation of a single glucose tablet. When you suspect your sugar is low, test, and then take the number of tablets to incrementally bring you up to the right (90) level, based on how your body reacts to specific number of tablets. Look at food labels for sugar content. Yes! But, make sure you understand that there are lots of different names for sugar (DEXTROSE, SUCROSE, FRUCTOSE, LACTOSE...) and add them up! Sugar Free stuff ain't necessarily so! Also, restrict carbohydrates that quickly convert to glucose! Learn WHEN to take your insulin based on a simple graduated test discussed in the book. Individualized to meet YOUR body needs... Lot's more. Bernstein was an engineer - so, he's got the details down pat - and later became an M.D. - and he's got diabetes. Get this book!!!
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Summary: A must read for all diabetics!
Review: This book is extremely insightful concerning the daily rigors of diabetic life. It gives hope of a way to circumvent the numerous complications of diabetes. It gives you the tools you need to keep your blood sugars level and within the normal range throughtout the day -- every day! I've been a diabetic for many years and this book gives me renewed hope!
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Summary: This book may have saved my life.
Review: I became a "juvenile diabetic" a few months after a viral infection at the age of 40. Shortly before I started Dr. Bernstein's program, I was taking 100 units of insulin daily and dieting to the point of constant hunger, but I never had a fasting sugar below 300 and I never had ketones below 1000. Ten days after I started the Diabetes Solution program I got tremendous results--sugars below 100 before and after meals, no more ketones, and new, abundant energy. In the year since I have been on the diet, I've even learned that I did not have IDDM after all--I now keep sugars between 65 and 105 on as little as 4 units of Lente and occasional shots of Lispro. I still hate finger pricks and insulin injections, and I miss the carbohydrate foods, but it's more than worth it for the tremendous improvement in the way I feel.
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Summary: FANTASTIC! I now control my diabetes, it doesn't control me!
Review: A friend gave me a copy and it changed my life. From blood sugars averaging 200+ to current averages of 105. More energy than I have had in years. I now have feeling in toes that were going numb, all in a matter of weeks. I only wish that the ADA would read this.
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Summary: This book is a GOD send
Review: I bought DR. Atkins book and The Zone, but they never answered the one question i had. What if you take insulin to control your blood sugar. Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution explains this and much more this book has dropped my blood sugars 214 mg. i feel like a new person and have dropped 15 pounds in 2 weeks. The diet is right along the same lines of the Atkins Diet but with more detail. RUN DONT WALK TO GET THIS WONDERFUL BOOK any questions please e-mail me nurit4@yahoo.com
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