The Sugar Blockers Diet: The Doctor-Designed 3-Step Plan to Lose Weight, Lower Blood Sugar, and Beat Diabetes--While Eating the Carbs You Love

I've read lots of these kinds of books and this is one of my favorites. This book is for people dedicated to changing their health, but are just starting their education in what to do. It goes the extra mile with advice and tools for newly interested folks. Its also for those people that have tried and failed all the extreme diets eliminating all fats or carbs or completely labeling this good or bad. If you want to come back to earth I recommend this book. The title makes you think this is another stupid diet book, but really its just some good education, advice and techniques from a medical professional that has a personnal connection with the topic. I quickly think of my friends that dont know much about how to eat healthy and how this book could get them on the right path with methods that dont require a mentally derranging complete elimination of one macro nutrient or another. This is not an extreme diet, rather informative in layman's terms that excessive insulin due to high glycimic diets is a key factor in our modern health crisis. This author quickly and efficently conveys his message and im glad to report you dont need to eat a ketogenic diet to experience the effects of lower insulin on your fat storage, appatite, sleep and many other things. It's a great book for people that have come to realize that no carb is not sustainable, but believe in the basic premise of no junk carbs and less carbs. In a nut shell, by choosing your carbs based on glycimic load and using a few tricks when you occasionally eat a higher glicemic meal you can make a real difference. Having read this theory in other books, i do feel his advice refined my understanding of what to look out for and ulrimately how to know if his guidance is working for you. While the premis of the book is sugar blocking to to reduce insulin production, his message of what large amounts of easily digestible starch do to your health via metabolic syndrome has compelled me to eat very small portions or none at all. When my dedication wavers there are the sugar blocking techiqued, but im pretty happy with the low glycimic fruits and berries or a brisk walk after a moderate glycimic food. If you try to use his advice while continuing to eat terribly, I doubt it will transform your life, but may help.

I have a lot of medical stuff going on, one of which WAS diabetes II. I use to be able to handle it with a strict diet but eventually I ended up on metformin. Then my doctor added glipizide. When my immune system (RA) got really bad, everyone worried about that but something was happening to my liver (enzymes). Since metformin works through the liver and glipizide through the pancreas, I went off metformin.I read the Sugar Blockers Diet. Then I typed up as many "tricks" as possible as a sort of cheat-sheet. I still refer to it. I tell everyone I know because it really works. About every month I have bloodwork done and my A1C came back at 5.6 which is good for a non-diabetic and incredible for a diabetic. Doctors were impressed and cut my glipizide in half with the intention of taking me off it if my next A1C is also good. I confessed and said I was eating more dessert than before but after reading the Sugar Blockers Diet I understood what was making my blood sugar spike and how to eat properly so as to avoid those spikes.Thank you, Dr. Thompson. I so appreciate your book!

Is a book to get back our health, period.The real teaching diets that can be follow for life as claims.A must have book that is true to our daily need and open up the option that can let us travel again without worry of diet problem when away from home. Also begin to confidently join others for foods gathering.A complete option are given in a clear and easy to follow reading.Feel lucky to have taking my chances to buy this book after reading some review here. Hope my review will also help boost someone confident to benefits from it.

truly a miracle book for my husband that has been diagnosed with type II diabetes.!!!! TRULY a MIRACLE because my husband is able to follow the advice easily and happily. I read reviews and take most with a grain of salt BUT this time, I have to post because we are so happy we have this man's advice!!! We put the first tips into practice and my husband saw an IMMEDIATE difference in his blood sugar readings. His doctor had him on 1500 mg of metformin AND an additional medicine called onglyza. This drove me nuts. I have my own feelings that being on all of these meds but not tweaking your diet properly makes your body dependent on the meds...causing you to take more and more and eventually be on insulin. My sister recommended the book for weight loss but I started reading it for my husband. He is now OFF of Onglyza and down to 1000 mg of metformin......when he shows his numbers to the doctor, he may be able to reduce further. This book is for EVERYONE..I am having my 17 year old son take heed and he, too, is happy to follow the advice and diet recommendations. He doesn't want to end up hurting his body with too much sugar.

I am a bread lover, so when my doctor said my HA1C number was 5.7 and my fasting blood sugar was 108, I took notice and bought this book. That was about 6 months ago. My total cholesterol was 211, which isn't THAT bad. My triglicerides were 135 and LDLC was 122. Ouch! Thankfully, my HDLC was 62. Anyway, I started following some of the suggestions that I read in this book and last week I had blood work again. My HA1C is now 5.5 which is normal. My fasting blood sugar was 82. 3 months ago, my fasting blood sugar was 96. So the trend has been downward. My total cholesterol from my latest blood work is 171, with triglicerides at 67, LDLC at 97, and HDLC at 61. I am very happy that these dietary changes appear to really work. I have been eating more salads, particularly at lunch. Also, I have cut way back on breads and only eat some after I have eaten some protein. Amazingly, I am not bread starved either. I have even lost a couple pounds, but I am not overweight anyway. I highly recommend this book. Easy to read, entertaining and it works!

This is a great book for anyone who is trying to lower their blood sugar. I've started using the plan outlined in this book and I think it is making a difference. The charts in the back of the book with foods and their glycemic index is also very helpful. I refer to it all the time. There is lots of good information and it's easy to follow.

Great for anyone who is diabetic to stop high sugar spurts after eating. Explains how to prevent this. Very interesting Doctor who wrote this book.

Most sensible and scientific book on proper eating habits. Easy to follow and maintain for good health

very good book