A Practical Guide The methods described by Fung should be taught to medical students and residents, and used in family medicine offices as part of a lifestyle approach to promoting health.
By understanding the underlying cause of the disease, Dr. Fung reveals how it can be prevented and also reversed using natural dietary methods instead of medications. Given the worldwide epidemic of type 2 diabetes in both adults and children, this is an important and timely book.
How Can Type 2 Diabetes Be Prevented?
[Jason Fung] has a gift for explaining complex science clearly and delivering it with the perfect, telling anecdote. With rich scientific support, Dr. Jason Fung has sounded a clarion call to re-evaluate how we view and treat diabetes.
Considering that roughly half of all adults worldwide are diabetic or on their way, The Diabetes Code is essential reading.
The Diabetes Code is unabashedly provocative yet practical. a clear blueprint for everyone to take control of their blood sugar, their health, and their lives. She has contributed to many publications.
what causes diabetes and prediabetes. First, remember that dietary carbohydrates cause a release of insulin from the pancreas, in order to dispose of the carbohydrate as an immediate source of energy or for storage in the liver and skeletal muscles as glycogen.
If the carb is not needed for immediate energy and if the glycogen tanks in liver and muscle are full, the glucose is converted to fat. That fat is ideally stored in specialized fat cells, but can also be stored in the liver and pancreas.
Excessive fat in the liver and pancreas eventually impairs function of those organs. To prevent this overload, cells have to become resistant to insulin's effects.
Diets rich in highly-processed, refined carbohydrates over-stimulate insulin release from the pancreas. Over time, this causes not only body fat, but also fat build-up in the liver and pancreas, impairing their function.
Everything you believe about treating type 2 diabetes is wrong. Today, most doctors, dietitians, and even diabetes specialists consider type 2 diabetes to be a chronic and progressive disease—a life sentence with no possibility of parole. But the truth, as Dr. Fung reveals in this groundbreaking book, is that type 2 diabetes is reversible.
Writing with clear, persuasive language, Dr. Fung explains why conventional treatments that rely on insulin or other blood-glucose-lowering drugs can actually exacerbate the problem, leading to significant weight gain and even heart disease.
The only way to treat type 2 diabetes effectively, he argues, is proper dieting and intermittent fasting—not medication.
The Diabetes Code is unabashedly provocative yet practical ... a clear blueprint for everyone to take control of their blood sugar, their health, and their lives.
