Diabetes: eat your way to better health

Description

Cover; Title Page; Contents; An introduction to diabetes; Type-1 and Type-2; Key anatomy and physiology; Digestion of food and absorption of nutrients; Carbohydrates and their digestion; Proteins and fats and their digestion; Blood sugar regulation; When things go wrong: the disease process of diabetes; Diagnosis; The role of nutrition; Key healthy ingredients for diabetes; References, contacts and resources; RECIPES; Breakfast; Lunch; Easy dinners; Fancy dinners; Desserts and snacks; Index; Copyright.;In this title, Dale investigates the explosion in diabetes and attempts to find out why and what you can do about it. The title is intended to help relieve both type- 1 and type-2 diabetes - using nutrition alongside conventional medicine - but, importantly, Dale believes diet alone can heal type-2 diabetes. In the first half of the book, Dale unpicks the physiology and anatomy of diabetes, showing how the modern diet causes insulin resistance and - ultimately - type-2 diabetes. But his mission is to correct that and, in the second half of the book, he provides the delicious tools to do so. A.