Publisher: Atria
Published: March 22, 2016
ISBN: 978-1501111228
Genre: Non-fiction,
Health
Format: Ebook
Obtained via: Publisher
Reviewed by
name and email address: Gina Ginalrmreviews@gmail.com
THREE ½ HEARTS
Diabetes
is one of the fastest growing illnesses in the United States today. Rates of the disease are increasing due to a
number of factors—none good. It is
well-known, and becoming even more so, that diabetes can lead to other illnesses.
Medication may help those living with it, but it doesn’t correct the
problem. It only makes living with the
disease easier to do. So what do we do about it?
After
not only studying the disease but living with it himself, Michael Mosley has
developed a plan of attack that he attest can help overcome the disease in
eight weeks. Much of the information in
the 8 Week Blood Sugar Diet has been written over and over again yet our
society, as a whole, just keeps getting sicker.
Mosley offers a relatively quick fix in terms of stopping the disease’s
progression before it gets too far out of hand, i.e., in the pre-diabetic
phase. He advocates for an 800 calorie a
day diet for 8 weeks. Other dietary
guidelines I’ve read over the years say less than 1200 is not only not healthy,
in the long run it is not sustainable. Mosley
does talk about how the 800 calorie limit is to get weight off the person
quickly to restore health more quickly.
The book, however, does not go into detail about maintenance after and
how to sustain the kind of dramatic loss over time. I suppose under a doctor’s care it would be
safe and the doctor would have some sort of maintenance plan in place.
It
is clearly not a plan for everyone but at the same time there are some valid
points discussed as well as some recent research on the subject.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement of
this book.
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