The Diabetes Breakthrough: Based on a Scientifically Proven Plan to Lose Weight and Cut Medications - Hardcover

Hamdy, Osama; Colberg, Sheri R.

 
9780373892846: The Diabetes Breakthrough: Based on a Scientifically Proven Plan to Lose Weight and Cut Medications
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0373892845 ISBN 13: 9780373892846
Verlag: Harlequin Nonfiction, 2014

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The Diabetes Breakthrough by Osama Hamdy\Sheri R. Colberg released on Feb 25, 2014 is available now for purchase.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

OSAMA HAMDY, M.D., is the medical director of the weight management program at Joslin Diabetes Center, the director of the inpatient diabetes management program at the Center and at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.



SHERI R. COLBERG, PH.D., is the author of eight books, a professor of exercise science at Old Dominion University and a diabetes researcher.

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Why WAIT? Lose Weight Now

Who would ever have imagined that the often relentless progression of a chronic disease like type 2 diabetes can be stopped or reversed? Or that you can reduce your diabetes medications even if you've been taking multiple ones for a long time, including insulin? The good news for you-and the rapidly expanding number of people with type 2 diabetes worldwide-is that it is finally imaginable and definitely possible and the program outlined in this book is the key to making it happen.

Maybe your doctor just told you that you have a "touch" of the sugar. Is that a reason to worry that you have diabetes? If truth be told, even if you only have a condition called prediabetes (which develops before type 2 diabetes), now is the time to get motivated and take action to improve your health and prevent it from turning into full-blown diabetes. Even in the early stages, diabetes can be a treacherous disease, one that may be damaging your blood vessels, eyes and nerves when you don't know you have it and while you're still feeling just fine. Once it has finally been diagnosed, your health may already be starting to suffer.

So what can you do? Luckily, diabetes is a controllable condition if you lose weight and follow a healthy lifestyle plan. You may have already heard that advice from your doctor, but you may not know how to accomplish these goals. Healthy lifestyle changes, like changing what you eat and exercising more, are critical for controlling diabetes at any stage of the disease, but they're particularly important in the early stages. Improving your lifestyle is also the key to losing enough weight to reverse the course of diabetes and avoid its negative impact on your health and well-being. All you need is the right guide on your path toward conquering it for good. The scientifically proven program you'll ind in this book is especially designed to help you do just that.

A HOME-BASED VERSION OF THE WHY WAIT PROGRAM FOR YOU

Dr. Hamdy and his team designed a medically managed weight loss program for people with diabetes called "Why WAIT" (Weight Achievement and Intensive Treatment), which is offered on-site through the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and affiliated with Harvard Medical School. This program has resulted in unsurpassed success for its participants-in fact, it's the only clinical program to show long-term successful weight loss for people with diabetes. Even though you'll be doing this home-based version of the Joslin Why WAIT program called the Diabetes Breakthrough on your own, it will help you lose and keep the weight off if you follow the program as closely as you possibly can.

We've known for a while that improving your lifestyle to help you lose as little as 10 or 15 pounds can prevent type 2 diabetes in the first place. But Dr. Hamdy and his colleagues at the Joslin Diabetes Center were the first to show that losing a similar amount of weight (around 7 percent of your total body weight) can rev up your insulin action and frequently reverse type 2 diabetes or prevent the development of health problems associated with it. Participants who went through the 12-week Why WAIT program at Joslin were able to cut their medications by an average of 50 to 60 percent and many of them were able to go off medications entirely, all while keeping their diabetes in great control.

It's time you joined them on the path to better health, a lesser chance of drug side effects and more money in your pocket as a result of paying for fewer expensive medications. Even if you don't reach your goal weight or completely eliminate your medications, how would you like to live a longer and healthier life without carrying around all those extra pounds? Our results at Joslin show it's possible and in this book you will learn how to make it happen for you.

What makes this program so unique? Here are ten innovations that make it a true breakthrough for weight loss and health management for anyone with diabetes or prediabetes:

1. This program progresses over 12 weeks like no other, with doable increases in your exercise plan, efective ways to change your bad habits and transitions in your diet from replacing some of your meals with meal shakes to eating just regular foods.

2. It's not just about reducing your calories by a set amount or eating only a certain amount of fat to lose weight; instead, you will be assigned a specific calorie level regardless of your current daily calories and you will follow a unique dietary plan that includes eating more protein and carbohydrates that cause smaller glucose spikes.

3. You'll learn how to combine eating healthy foods and meal replacement shakes, both with speciic proportions of carbohydrates, protein and fat to better manage your blood glucose levels and body weight.

4. On this program, you'll be able to eat many of your regular foods following our special menus that were developed from commonly used foods (instead of making you eat new foods you may not like or follow strange and unusual menus).

5. Your activity plan has a greater emphasis on strength exercise to build muscle, not just cardio workouts like most weight loss plans.

6. Unlike most plans, you'll work up to doing about 300 minutes of weekly exercise that its into your daily lifestyle (in comparison to more common recommendations of only 150 minutes of weekly cardio exercise).

7. Through this book, your health care providers will have access to algorithms that ofer guidelines for precisely changing your diabetes medications to enhance weight loss, especially to avoid hypoglycemia (low blood glucose levels).

8. You'll also learn why you should consult with your health care team about revisiting the dosages and types of diabetes medications you take as you lose weight and you'll ind out why it's important to continue to monitor your blood glucose levels.

9. You'll learn a lot about how to change your habits and the behaviors that caused you to gain wait in the irst place.

10. In addition to learning about how to lose weight safely, this program also teaches you everything you need to know about managing your diabetes more efectively.

COULD THIS BE YOUR STORY?

We'd like you to meet Linda, a graduate of the revolutionary Joslin Why WAIT program. Her story is that she started out at a normal weight when she was a young adult, but over the next four decades she steadily gained about a pound a year, gaining over 40 pounds total and developing type 2 diabetes in the process. She had a family history of diabetes, but it was her weight gain that led her to fully develop type 2 diabetes.

Naturally, she tried to lose the weight after she got the bad news, especially since her doctor kept emphasizing the need to lose weight to control her blood glucose levels. Linda knew how to lose weight on a diet; in fact, she repeatedly dieted and exercised over a decade when her weight gain had become embarrassing to her, but without any lasting success. She was worried that this time wouldn't be any different. Basically, despite what she had heard about the program, she expected to lose some weight and then eventually gain it back again like she always had in the past-only now she also had diabetes to contend with and that wasn't going away.

WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?

How does Linda's story relate to your own? Have you been gaining weight slowly over the years? How many times have you lost weight on a diet, only to gain it all back-and maybe some extra-not long after? Do you dread the holidays every...

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Verlag
Harlequin Nonfiction
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0373892845
ISBN 13 
9780373892846
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Anzahl der Seiten
320
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