The low-starch diabetes solution : six steps to optimal control of your adult-onset (type 2) diabetes with the science of insulin resistance and the glycemic load / Rob Thompson ; recipes by Dana Carpender.

Thompson, Rob, 1945- (Author). Carpender, Dana. (Added Author).

Summary:

A scientifically-proven, low-starch diet and exercise program to lower blood sugar, reduce insulin resistance, and manage Type II Diabetes from Dr. Rob Thompson, author of our popular The Glycemic-Load Diet (over 20,000 copies sold). Recipes provided by Dana Carpender, author of the bestselling 15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes.

Record details

ISBN: 0071621504
ISBN: 9780071621502
Physical Description: iv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, [2010]
Copyright: ©2010

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1 Toxin -- 1 A Gift from the Fertile Crescent 5 -- 2 Lowering Blood Sugar the Old-Fashioned Way 9 -- 3 Glycemic Load: The New Old-Fashioned Way 17 -- 4 Culprit, Revealed 37 -- 5 Highly Peculiar Effects of Dietary Starch 55 -- 6 Sugar-Containing Beverages: Starch's Slippery Mimic 65 -- 7 Starch-Vulnerable Individual: How Insulin Resistance Works 75 -- 8 Things That Get Better When You Eliminate Starch 85 -- 9 Kicking the Addiction 95 -- Part 2 Six Steps to Optimal Control of Your Diabetes -- 10 Step 1: Purging Starch from Your Diet 111 -- 11 Step 2: Inhibiting Starch Absorption 121 -- 12 Step 3: Sensitizing Your Muscles to Insulin 129 -- 13 Step 4: Getting Your Liver to Cooperate 143 -- 14 Step 5: Making Up Any Insulin Deficit with Insulin 153 -- 15 Step 6: Optimizing Your Cholesterol and Blood Pressure 163 -- Part 3 Low-Starch Cuisine: Discovering a Tastier Way to Eat -- 16 Starch Substitutes That Taste Better than Starch / Dana Carpender 173 -- 17 Art of Baking with Starch-Free Flours / Dana Carpender 201 -- 18 A Seven-Day Low-Starch Meal Plan 227.