The End of Diabetes audiobook

My husband and I both read this book although he is the only one of us with diabetes. The book is uplifting and gives hope for those who are willing to take serious measures in order to end diabetes. My husband was on insulin, and just like the book said, after a few weeks following the diet he no longer needed to take these shots. He was able to reduce his 42 units gradually but quickly. What we put in our mouth does make a significant difference on our health! I suggest this book to anyone who wants to get rid of their diabetes. It's amazing!

The only reason I am not giving this wonderful, life changing book less than five stars is that the author keeps referring to his "delicious" recipes. I will decide whether they are delicious or not, thank you very much.Also, there's a tad too much cheerleading in the book for this eating plan.But aesthetic considerations aside, this is the book you read and follow if you, like me, were foolish as a young eater and now suffer through diabetes. This guy really does set you straight.Surprise! The eating plan consists of vegetables, beans, nuts and fruit. Who coulda seen that coming?Dr. Fuhrman did his homework. He outlines in detail why the Standard American Diet (SAD) is destructive for you, and how to get your body back in whack. I have read lots of diet books over the years and tried a few. This one works. I've been following it 95% for the last six weeks. I am not only losing weight, I am gaining energy and feeling lots better.What I particularly like is that this is not a diet fad. It's a life plan that you can adhere to because you don't get ravenously hungry as you do on artificial diets. This plan is designed for health, not mere weight loss.

Amazing book. Literally cured my mom of diabetes, and brought my dad's under very good control. Also her eyesight which was affected by diabetic retinopathy improved.

After telling me I was prediabetic months earlier, my doctor told me I was diabetic in mid-February. He wanted to put me on three kinds of medicine. Instead I found this book, despaired at the recommendations but then tried them, and in three months lost about 10% of my weight. I also stopped needing blood-pressure pills, and am now in remission. Thank you, Dr. Fuhrman!

As an RN of 28 years, I wish I could put this in the hands of all current and prediabetics, whether type 1 or type 2. I see the complications of diabetes in my work daily and frustrated for them by the outsated and complicated diet info that is given to patients, and very influenced by corporate misinformation to sell product or more drug. This is not a hard or expensive plan to follow-the complications of diabetes is so much harder and expensive!

May 2019This book was eye-opening.  If you have ever been told that you are pre-diabetic or that you have diabetes you should be instructed to exercise and change your diet.  If you have been medicated for years without being told this, your doctor is doing you a disservice.  This book encourages you to move, and change your eating habits.  You may not know just how bad you are eating until you begin keeping a food journal and realize that you eat some sort of carb every day whether it is in the form of wheat, grain or flour.  Foods like potatoes, rice, rolls, and crusts.  Usually people don’t know just how bad things are until a doctor says the words “pre-diabetic” And prescribed some meds. Some blindly take the medication without question and accept the doctor telling then they really need it. The others will refuse and do research.If you are doing the research I commend you.  Don't ever blindly put your life in someone else's hand.  Do your research. Some doctors will automatically put you on medication, but the medicine only helps the symptoms, not the problem.  As you get older, the doctor will only increase, multiply or prescribe another pill.When I met my husband 5 years ago he was on one medication, a blood thinner because he gets blood clots around his ankles. As he began building a new building (his job) the stress increased and he was put on blood pressure medication. Now in only 5 years, he is taking 6 medications including 2 for blood pressure and one to help him sleep at night. Now his doctor wants to put him on more medication because now he is prediabetic.When we got married and moved in together just over a year ago, I started going with him to his doctor appts and not once did his doctor mention exercise and change of diet. I found this book an I have changed the kinds of foods we eat. I didn't know rice was full of carbs, and that we should cut back on meat and eat more vegetables. My health is fine so I didn't think the food was the problem. Since beginning to read this book a week ago and eating more veggies and fruits, we signed up at a gym and my husband has lost a notch on his belt and I have lost 2 pounds. I will update how we're doing after his next doctor appt.Oct 2019 UpdateMy husband never went back to that doctor he’d been going to for 30 years. We found a new doctor who is persistent in asking about his exercise and diet. And we’re working on weaning him off some of these medicines. He’s lost 10 pounds and I’ve lost 12. He is going to get bloodwork done and we’ll go back to the doctor to move forward.

Now listening to the audio version since I did skim over some of the parts about the Type 1 diabetic. What Fuhrman discusses is extremely eye-opening. Will write more later.

An advocate for treating the cause of disease rather than just the symptoms, Fuhrman disagrees with doctors who tell their patients that once diagnosed with diabetes, they will always have diabetes.He claims to have successfully treated hundreds/thousands of patients through a regimen of diet and exercise. He dubs his recommended mode of eating as a nutrarian diet, which really is nothing more than a vegetarian diet that emphasizes whole, nutrient rich plant foods while avoiding processed foods of plant or animal origin. "Beans and greens." These are the basis of his eating plan. And while he does recommend a handful of supplements in passing, he tends to put more emphasis on getting the nutrients we need from our diet, which he says is pretty easy if you follow the plan. I think this is a strength of the book as it seems more in line with the research we have to date which historically has shown that not only is supplementation often not helpful, but it is sometimes detrimental to one's health.The reality is any diet that focuses on fruits and veggies as well as whole vs. processed foods is bound to lead to improved health and weight loss. As a doctor, he often treats patients that are already taking insulin and thus monitors them very closely as he quickly tries to first wean them off of insulin. He also makes a point of reminding readers that those with diabetes may require a stricter diet, at least until their blood sugar is under control and they have successfully shed some of the extra weight. I also think he does a decent job of gearing the book toward diabetics, although, much of the same nutritional advice could apply to anyone, even those without diabetes.

Joel fuhrman ,MD writes with compassion and conviction about ridding the body of diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease,poor cholesterol, obesity. He has long purported eating little animal products and liberally consuming greens, nuts, seeds, and fruits. He makes convincing arguements to radically change the typical diet to lead the body to wholesome health. There are dozens of recipes and plan menus to make this enlightened plan the easiest way to good health.

Great info and diet to reverse the disease. For anyone who has not had success with other diets or protocols. This is very strict and will be difficult for most people but if you truly want results you must change what you eat. I will use this when counseling my clients.

Best Diet book ever. I am loosing 1 lb a day, sugars are back to normal, and I feel great.

As usual, when I read a book, I take notes. In this case I simply quit taking notes – there is too much information. I decided to put one sticky note on the cover of the whole damn book. I did keep a few of the notes I made in the beginning, but there are so many important details contained inside, that I simply couldn’t keep putting 5 or 6 sticky notes on a single page. I will quibble with Doctor Furman on two points (I feel bad about it, because this is truly an outstanding book): 1. He says it’s ok to have a small (and he does say it must be very small and very infrequent) amount of meat products. Why tell people to eat meat at all? 2. He recommends meat products be fish. Sorry doc, but from everything I’ve read, fish is no better off than chicken, pork, beef, turkey, or any other animal flesh. The problem is in our ability to raise an uncontaminated animal. 99% of our animal products sold to the masses are raised on CAFOs. It is impossible to get a product that I would feel comfortable with – and even if I could, does that mean I would want to eat it? Would it benefit my body in some manner?He also has a great number of delicious looking recipes in the back that I hope to try out. Overall, tremendous and informative. I hope many people can change their lives because of the information contained within.P2 As a diabetic, you probably have a plan to keep on top of your conditions with glucose monitoring, HbA1C measurements, regular physician visits, and medication adjustments. These standard and accepted practices to maintain control of your blood glucose are seen as essential to your health. Unfortunately, this is all wrong.P3 Contrary to popular speculation, the many diseases that plague all people and threaten our lives are not an inevitable consequence of aging. We are not the victims of poor genetics. We do not need a steady supply of pills for the rest of our lives. We have come to believe that our excess, disease-causing body fat is normal, acceptable and too difficult to take off. Drugs are not the solution to weight, diabetes, or other problems that seem to come with aging.P4 When you eat sufficient micronutrients and fiber with a high nutrient diet, it suppresses food cravings. Amazingly you begin to naturally crave fewer calories.P9 The average type 2 diabetic incurs $6,649 in health care costs directly attributable to diabetes per year. More than half of Americans will have diabetes or be prediabetic by 2020 at a cost of $3.35 trillion to the U.S. health care system if current trends go on unabated.P13 More than one third of type I diabetics die before age 50.P21 The ADA diet uses the diabetic exchange list to help diabetics create what they call balanced meals. This exchange diet divides foods up into groups based on similarities in nutrient content and includes starches, fruits, milk, vegetables, meats, fats, sweets, and other carbohydrates. It looks to make meals that are based on a preconceived notion that balancing an equal amount of fat, carbohydrates, and protein at each meal is favorable. It then allows exchanges based on the amount of calories from that macronutrient. For example, in the starch group, one slice of toast can be exchanged for a half cup serving of cooked oatmeal. Because the foods the diet is designed with are inherently poor in fiber, micronutrients, and resistant starch, they fuel an obsession with food because the dieter is never satisfied. This continual struggle with dieting and trying to maintain small portion sizes of foods that do not biologically fill you up rarely works. Even in controlled dietary studies in which calories are carefully monitored, the results are relatively poor simply because the American dietary standard is so poor and the ADA diet mimics this failed dietary pattern utilizing too much unhealthy low-micronutrient foods. Researchers have also frequently noted the difficulties involved in the ADA plan, particularly the requirements to dramatically restrict portion sizes that most individuals simply cannot comply with long term.P26 Jim’s story illustrates not merely how powerful this dietary protocol is but also how the standard nutritional advice given to diabetics from conventional physicians and dieticians can be disease promoting. The standard nutritional advice given to diabetics is not only insufficient – it is dangerous. P33 The tendency to throw drugs at every medical condition is the problem with medicine today. Physicians prescribe drugs in an attempt to lower dangerously high blood sugar, risky high cholesterol, and damaging high blood pressure levels typically seen in diabetics, since these high levels can lead to further damage or premature death. Unfortunately, treating diabetes with medication gives patients a false sense of security because they mistakenly think their somewhat controlled glucose levels mean they are healthy. Whether patients have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or any other risk factor, the use of medication takes the emphasis away from the complete overhaul of the lifestyle and diet style that is absolutely essential to save their life. Going to doctors and getting a pill for every issue has a subconscious effect to avert personal responsibility, and the motivation for patients to earn back their health is lessened. P35 In fact, studies that follow patients who carefully monitor their glucose level, adjusting their medications precisely to maintain the most favorable levels, show that these people have increased mortality. They do not do better. The only way to beat diabetes is to get thin, eat right, and use less medication. On February 6, 2008, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute stopped the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes study when results showed that intensive treatment of diabetics increases the risk of dying compared to patients who are treated less aggressively. When you read the comments of physicians and researchers discussing these results, it is apparent that they still do not understand why this occurred. Physicians are still looking for the magic combination of drugs to treat diabetes. They still do not understand that drugs cannot effectively treat this disease, which is merely a side effect of an unhealthy lifestyle and diet.P37 The ADA medical advisory committee states: “It is nearly impossible to take very obese people and get them to lose significant weight. So rather than specifying an amount of weight loss, we are targeting metabolic control.” This is doublespeak for “Our recommended diets don’t work, so we just give medications and watch patients deteriorate.”P39 Following a correct diet and exercise plan as a remedy should not be labeled alternative or complementary medicine. It is simply the way all properly educated doctors should be practicing. Everything else should be called malpractice medicine. Offering patients drugs and surgical interventions without informing them that, for most diseases, nutritional excellence and exercise are safer and more effective in the long run is not adequate informed consent to the use of medications. The risks of medicines are downplayed and their supposed benefits greatly exaggerated by a medial profession and drug industry who offer drugs as the panacea to all that ails us.P44 Yes, to lose weight and improve your health, you need t eat less fa, less carbohydrate, and less protein, reducitn total caloric intake. But the secret is not to count calories to reduce calories. That never works. The secret is to focus on micronutrients. I know it defies logic, at first, but true health lies in a high-quality diet – eating foods packed with micronutrients.P45 Micronutrients include fourteen vitamins and sixteen essential minerals known to be vital to human health, . . . However, these vitamins and essential minerals, identified over 75 years ago, are just two types of micronutrients. Phytochemicals are the third type of micronutrient and were identified more recently.P47 When you seek to consume a broad array of both discovered and undiscovered micronutrients via your food choices, you are a nutritarian. It is not sufficient to merely avoid trans fats or saturated fats. It is not sufficient for the diet to have a low glycemic index. It is not sufficient for the diet to be low in animal products. It is not sufficient for the diet to be mostly raw food. A truly healthy diet must be micronutrient rich, and the micronutrient richness must be adjusted to meet individual needs.P65 Calorie counting simply doesn’t work in the long run. Diets based on portion control and calorie counting generally permit the eating of highly toxic, low-nutrient foods and then require us to fight our addictive drives and attempt to eat less. This combination undernourishes the body, resulting in uncontrollable and frequent food cravings.P68 diabetics mostly die of heart attacks. A meat-based diet promotes artherosclerosis, increases the risk of blood clots, and accelerates kidney failure in diabetics. A diet high in animal products and low in vegetables and beans is the formula for a medical disaster. Diabetics need the opposite: a diet high in vegetables and beans and low in animal products. Some people have bought into the faulty logic that if sugar and refined grains and other high-glycemic foods raise blood sugar and triglycerides, then we should eat more animal products instead of these refined carbohydrates. Unquestionably, sugar, white flour, and other processed grains are unfavorable and must be removed to achieve good health, but to increase animal products at the expense of vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds, and other low-glycemic, nutrient –rich plant foods (which are protein adequate) is not only dangerous but also reduces the potential for the diabetic to recover and get off all medications. Carbohydrate-restricive diets that are rich in animal products can offer some short-term imporovement in glucose control and can potentially aid weight loss in some people, but because those diets are too rich in animal products (which do not contain phytochemicals or antioxidants), they incur other significant risks such as cancer, heart disease, and kidney disease. The main problems with recommending a diet with a significant amount of animal products for diabetics are that the increased protein intake promotes the progression of diabetic kidney disease, and the animal-source protein and saturated fate intake raise cholesterol and promote heart disease.P69 Not only are diets very high in animal products dangerous in the short-term, they are more dangerous when followed long term. Animal products need to be restricted for disease reversal to occur predictably.P70 Tip: Eat more foods rich in vegetable protein and less or no foods with animal protein. I have seen many diabetic patients on a physician-recommended high-protein diets develop kidney or heart problems. Numerous people have suffered and died needlessly because of misinformation. I consider this advice malpractice. This issue still exists. Many doctors are still advocating this diet style for diabetics. Advocates for high-animal protein diets flood bookstores and the Internet because people want to hear they can eat all these rich foods that they desire. People buy into the hype and often don’t understand the dangers until it is too late. P72 The paleo diet uses a distorted view of ancient history to argue that a diet of 50 to 80 percent animal products is the most life span enhancing.P73 It is also well established that lots of meat equals lots of gout and kidney stones.P74 …we can prevent disease with a high-nutrient diet. It is important that we all know that we can no longer deny the dangers from a diet style rich in meat and other animal products. Humans are primates, and all primates eat a diet of predominantly natural vegetation. If they eat animal products, it is a very small percentage of their total caloric intake. Luckily, we have modern science that shows that most common ailments in today’s world are the result of wrong nutritional choices arising from misguided nutritional information.I quit taking notes here, it was just too much, but I did want to note one last thing.P131 For many years, most Americans incorrectly believed that only animal products contained all the essential amino acids and that plant proteins were incomplete. False. They were taught that animal protein is superior to plant protein. False. They accept the outdated notion that plant protein must be mixed and matched in some complicated way that take the planning of a nuclear physicist for a vegetarian diet to be adequate. False. I guess they never thought too hard about how a rhinoceros, hippopotamus, gorilla, giraffe, or elephant could become so big while eating only vegetables@professorbennett

Well, this was the last thing I ever would have picked up, but I put my dad in assisted living/memory care in May of this year and along with family and friends, began to move him out of his apartment. Dad has always been a big fan of Dr. Joel Fuhrman (I may have another book listed here by him, because Dad sent me a box of 3 books by him once...I know I didn't read all three) and our family has a strong history of diabetes (grandparents, parents, siblings, cousins, etc.). My doctor has been telling me for years, "For you, based on your family history, it's not 'if' but 'when.'"So I read it. And I really liked it (took me all summer to finish). And his advice seems pretty sound. I don't think I'll rush out and try all his recipes, but I have begun to use meat and dairy products as more of a condiment (eating animal products more sparingly, but haven't eliminated them) and I have totally increased my vegetable intake. I've also begun sprinkling a teaspoon of chia seeds (he suggests a variety of nuts and seeds) into some of my food. Prepping the food after grocery shopping (chop chop) and eating all the vegetables on time before they spoil requires commitment, but I feel better and have dropped a couple of pounds. And I feel super satisfied (not hungry).On page 124, Dr. Fuhrman says,"I call high-nutrient, high-volume foods that fill you up the unlimited foods. They include:1. All raw vegetables2. All cooked green vegetables3. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, mushrooms, onions, cauliflowerThe goal is to eat large amounts of these three food categories to flood the body with micronutrients and fiber. Memorize them!"I don't quite have them memorized yet and I've never in my life purchased an eggplant let alone cooked one, so there's a learning curve yet to be experienced.He also says he'll ask his patients how often they forget to take their diabetes medications and they usually say "Never." He goes on to point out if people want to neglect themselves or say they are too busy, they should forget to take their prescription drugs, but they should never forget to exercise. He says, "Too many people suffering from diabetic conditions believe that drugs are their savior." I thought that was an interesting argument/point.He also has a list of which organic produce really should be purchased and which produce is okay to buy even if it's not organic (pesticides).I learned a lot!

I'm a fan of Fuhrman so I can read outside the bias toward his own research and focus on his analysis of the research he has conducted and his clinical experience. I liked that this book had fewer client-anecdotes (like Super Immunity rather than The End of Dieting). I always learn something new in his books though his methods are overall the same as he gets into the weeds of whatever disorder it's focused around.

This is another option to consider in your search for diabetes resolution. My perspective is that, while type II diabetes cannot be cured, there are two dietary changes that can remove all diabetic symptoms and outcomes without using medication. One option is explained in this book: a low-fat, low-salt, very nutrient-dense, mostly vegan diet. The eater is encouraged to estimate, then learn, how much to eat in order to be hungry for the next meal, eating 3 times per day. Another option is in The Diabetes Code by Dr. Jason Fung: a moderate-protein, low-carb, high-fat, moderately salted diet. The eater is encouraged to eat until satisfied, then avoid eating until truly hungry again, even if it is a few days. Both recommend completely avoiding processed foods made from ground grains, and anything artificial or unrecognizable: breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, candy, etc. Both recommend eating nutrient-dense single-ingredient foods like greens and vegetables. There are more differences and similarities, but these are the ones that stood out for me. I am currently using the Fung method, as I learned about it first. The meal plans also have a smaller learning curve for me, and it is working to keep my blood sugar at normal, healthy levels.It is nice to know that there is another possible option available. Different people have success with different options.Some things behind this diet have thrown up some questions for me, though. It’s true that lions are made from things that the giraffe or zebra ate, but don’t lions fed on grass wither away and die?Aren’t his recommended supplements (B-12 and Omega-3) and tofu highly processed?

Although Dr. Fuhrman can use an editor, the content of his book is superb and backed by scientific studies. At first I thought it was just one more book claiming it can cure diabetes. Then my endocrinologist told me she is a big believer in whole food plant based diets with no oils for her diabetic patients. I have a rare type of diabetes called type 3c which is caused from having a bout of pancreatitis years before the diabetes set in. It is due to a deficiency of insulin due to the insult to the pancreas. I tried low card and although it lowered my blood glucose I started having arrhythmias. With Dr. Fuhrmans diet I have good glucose levels, have discontinued my anti arrhythmic medication and and slowly weaning off my diabetic medication. I have been able to avoid taking any insulin. Dr. Fuhrman has saved many lives.