So What Are We All Reading This Summer?

We wanted to know what everyone else is reading so we started out by asking Christine London. Here's what she had to say:

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This summer I have slid back into some non-fiction reading. A doctor recommended a couple books written by health/food gurus and I am devouring them. When I went to my doctor for a check up and found out that my blood sugar level was creeping up into the pre-diabetic zone, I thought it a good idea to look at the most recent findings.

In THE BLOOD SUGAR SOLUTION, Dr. Mark Hyman reveals that insulin resistance/pre-diabetes and full diabetes is the major cause of aging and death in the developed and most of the developing world. He goes step by step, enumerating the contributing factors in this modern plague. Scientists conservatively estimate that by 2020 1 in 2 Americans will be adversely effected by this “diabesity” (diabetes caused by high BMI/overweight/obesity or ‘underlean’ (not enough muscle), 90 percent will not be diagnosed. Currently there are no reimbursements to health care providers for diagnosing and treating anything but full-blown diabetes. Insulin resistance and its continuum is the health care burden of the twenty first century. The prevalence of type two diabetes has tripled since the 1980’s.

We are raising the first generation of Americans to live sicker and die younger than their parents. Diabesity is the major cause of chronic disease and decreased life expectancy. Physicians are trained to offer medication or surgery to solve diabetes (and disease in general), when the real cause includes poor quality diet, nutritional deficiencies, allergens, toxins and stress. When diet is full of empty calories and an abundance of quickly absorbed sugars, liquid calories (sodas juices sports drinks and vitamin waters) and refined carbohydrates (with bread rice pasta and potatoes) cells slowly become insulin resistant. Diabetes will not be cured by a pill or surgery. Disease will go away as a side effect of getting healthy.

This book is a huge wake up call to what big food and pharmaceutical concerns are doing to the health of our nation. Subsidized high calorie, low nutrition foods that are highly addictive are being sold like so many drugs. It takes a radical act of valor to resist the insidious effects and choose clean, healthy food that is closer to a plant than made in a plant. Big food, big farming and Big Pharma are killing us.

Interested in learning more? Read Dr Hyman’s “The Blood Sugar Solution”. That said, be prepared to be ‘sold’ other products as ‘help’ to support your efforts to fight the good fight against our modern diet. Everyone has to make a living, but I find the Mark Hyman machine a bit over the top for someone who professes to be writing and lobbying with totally magnanimous motives.

The other non fiction book is also nutrition/lifestyle related. “The Paleo Solution” by Robb Wolf purports a closer to caveman diet as a means of modern man regaining his health and vitality. Asserting that "modern life causes diabetes, autoimmunity, cancer, neurodegeneration, and infertility," the first-time author Wolf, a former student of The Paleo Diet's Lauren Cordain, takes on grains, carbs, vegetarians, misinformation, and other aspects of modern life with a casual, conversational tone ("Keep your poop where it belongs") that makes even topics like the components of total cholesterol engaging.

Not unlike the Mark Hyman treatise, this book walks you through the evils of our modern diet and lifestyle and the deleterious often-catastrophic effects it is exacting on our health.

I highly recommend both. If you need information and inspiration to improve your health, these books won’t disappoint.

Links:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Blood-Sugar-Solution-UltraHealthy/dp/031612737X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340926551&sr=1-1&keywords=the+sugar+solution+mark+hyman

http://www.amazon.com/The-Paleo-Solution-Original-Human/dp/0982565844/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340925335&sr=1-1&keywords=robb+wolf+paleo+solution

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So tell us, what are you reading this summer and why did you choose it?