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The Diabetes Improvement Program: The Ultimate Handbook for Using Foods & Supplements to Slow and Reverse the Complications of Diabetes
Book The Diabetes Improvement Program.
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First published February 1, 2001
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Patrick Quillin
45 books27 followersPatrick Quillin, PhD, RD, CNS, is a bestselling author, internationally recognized nutrition expert, and lifelong student of the remarkable ways people respond to adversity and change. He has written more than twenty books, including the acclaimed Beating Cancer with Nutrition, and his books have sold more than two million copies worldwide.
After decades of writing about health, resilience, hope, and the human capacity for renewal, Patrick brings those themes to life through fiction in The Reluctant Tourists.
Blending adventure, suspense, humor, history, and heartfelt human connection, the novel follows ordinary people swept into an extraordinary journey they never intended to take. Through unexpected detours, unlikely friendships, dangerous encounters, and second chances, Patrick explores a timeless idea: the road we resist may sometimes become the road that transforms us.
Patrick lives and writes in Southern California, where he continues to explore the connections between meaningful living, personal resilience, and the possibilities hidden within life’s unexpected turns.
After decades of writing about health, resilience, hope, and the human capacity for renewal, Patrick brings those themes to life through fiction in The Reluctant Tourists.
Blending adventure, suspense, humor, history, and heartfelt human connection, the novel follows ordinary people swept into an extraordinary journey they never intended to take. Through unexpected detours, unlikely friendships, dangerous encounters, and second chances, Patrick explores a timeless idea: the road we resist may sometimes become the road that transforms us.
Patrick lives and writes in Southern California, where he continues to explore the connections between meaningful living, personal resilience, and the possibilities hidden within life’s unexpected turns.
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November 25, 2023
This turns out to be printed in 1999 so is 24yrs out of date, to remind any future readers there are many more up to date books on diabetes and how to manage it out there. I found this in a bin in a charity shop and should've taken a longer look at it. The picture by the way is of the back of the book, I can't imagine why. Well the front cover isn't much better I suppose!
It says it's a Doctor's Handbook for Using Foods and Supplements to Slow and Reverse the Complications of Diabetes. And it's written in doctor speak which doesn't make it a particularly easy book to read, too much complicated information for your average non-medical patient.
The book is all doom and gloom and I wonder if it was written to frighten diabetics!! It's certainly a complicated book to read anyway. It's called an improvement programme or program but I wasn't really notching up many improvements, apart from eat much less sugar and sugary things, which is the very first thing all new diabetics are taught and is drummed in to you from the very beginning.
The chapters aren't conducive to reading either, it's practically screaming out statistics, graphs and other assorted complicated things at you from the first page, so much so that I began to wonder if I needed a degree in maths to read it. I really wouldn't recommend this book, as I say it is 24yrs out of date and there really are much better books for diabetics out there, the information changes slowly I know, so even books in the last 5yrs or so aren't out of date. It is just that this book is.
It says it's a Doctor's Handbook for Using Foods and Supplements to Slow and Reverse the Complications of Diabetes. And it's written in doctor speak which doesn't make it a particularly easy book to read, too much complicated information for your average non-medical patient.
The book is all doom and gloom and I wonder if it was written to frighten diabetics!! It's certainly a complicated book to read anyway. It's called an improvement programme or program but I wasn't really notching up many improvements, apart from eat much less sugar and sugary things, which is the very first thing all new diabetics are taught and is drummed in to you from the very beginning.
The chapters aren't conducive to reading either, it's practically screaming out statistics, graphs and other assorted complicated things at you from the first page, so much so that I began to wonder if I needed a degree in maths to read it. I really wouldn't recommend this book, as I say it is 24yrs out of date and there really are much better books for diabetics out there, the information changes slowly I know, so even books in the last 5yrs or so aren't out of date. It is just that this book is.
September 28, 2014
Having had Diabetes for a couple of years and been provided with medicines to 'manage' the illness it was quite refreshing to read this simple book that concentrates on mitigating the illness rather than managing it. Although not promising full reversal of the illness Patrick Quillin gives lots of useful advice on diet that can help diabetics and non-diabetics alike.
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