Stop Diabetes!

How everything began

In 1893 a young doctor ordered his diabetes sick patient Mary H. a low carbohydrate, fat and protein rich diet. For this he told her: "Carbohydrates have no vital importance for the body and must be eliminated by using the kidneys. This creates thirst, excessive urination, itching and kidney disease. "As the physicians reported to the welfare of his patient improved abruptly under the diet.

Over the years, it should still help many diabetics with its diet program. In his 1916 published monograph ( "The Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus"), he could look back on 1.000 case reports and document that his diet and exercise plan a 20 percent reduction in mortality was achieved in diabetics. Dr. Elliott Joslin Diabetes was the most famous physician of his time. He founded the Joslin Diabetes Center at Harvard University in Boston, which is a leader in diabetes research to date. Before insulin was available, remained his low carbohydrate diet, the standard treatment for diabetes.

With the introduction of insulin and other drugs, the diet became less important. In addition, a real fat phobia developed to 1970 in the US. Nutrition researchers believed they had found the proof that much fat dick spending diet and cardiovascular disease promotes. And the (animal) protein believed that it harms the liver and kidneys. Thus came the end for the recognized effective carbohydrate-restricted diet!

Since then, diabetics have been told to eat with a particular emphasis on carbohydrates - this is still stipulated in the recommendations of the professional associations. This has not only amazed those affected again and again: after all, diabetes mellitus is a carbohydrate utilization disorder. Out of sheer fear of fat and protein, one accepts that the body is particularly bad at coping with its real problem, the utilization of carbohydrates. But the more carbohydrates are eaten, the more medication is needed to control blood sugar. An interesting concept.

The current literature contains numerous examples of that, the glycemic control improved, as a number of accompanying risk factors when fewer carbohydrates and more (unsaturated) fats are eaten. And with intact kidney function improves an increased at the expense of carbohydrates protein intake, the metabolic condition in addition. The corresponding data I had gathered already for my published in 2000 book "Syndrome X or A mammoth on the plate!". From this I developed a practical concept for people with obesity, insulin resistance and subsequent diseases such as type-2 diabetes: the "LOGI-method". In hundreds lectures I have presented doctors, nutritionists and dieticians. After initial skepticism, the LOGI method is enjoying a growing acceptance among therapists and increasingly popular with patients. The positive feedback, especially from diabetes outpatient centers and rehabilitation clinics, speak for themselves: to doctor and patient to the extent LOGI involved, they see immediate therapeutic success, and drug consumption drops!

One evening in a conference hotel in Hagen spoke to me after my lecture a young and very guard diabetes nurse at. She had been drafted with two colleagues from her boss, an established diabetologists, taken to the training evening or better. Voluntary they would not come to "again so to hear a diet guru with a miracle diet," as she confessed to me years later. She had just begun their training, was full of energy and deeply rooted in the belief in the good carbohydrates. She could not imagine that it would be prudent to recommend type 2 diabetics instead of bread prefer cheese or a piece of meat easily. Your inner rejection was however quickly cracks. Could it really be that simple? They decided to start their own experiment. That made sense, because as long type 1-diabetic knew from ideal.

She gave herself three weeks - and was convinced: Her weight had fallen and her blood sugar levels were even better than before with less insulin requirement. She realized: It can be that simple. She began to familiarize herself with the specialist literature and found her own work confirmed there. And she was amazed that these insights weren't even addressed in her training. From now on she worked hard to ensure that diabetics were trained in the practice of her boss in the direction of a low-carbohydrate diet. Years have passed and it has given hundreds of type 2 diabetics a new, better perspective.

Now she has presented this book. Katja Richert is now diabetes nurse at the Hospital Munich-Schwabing, a diabetes stronghold in Germany. A more ideal author for this guide can not give: Here writes a specialist with years of experience in patients and to himself, you know better than any doctor what language is used by patients who dietary advice in which image best packed.. The result is an excellent book that appeals directly and easily understood on the basis of current scientific knowledge the patient.

By brought on board to have a nutritionist, which is characterized by technical as well as linguistic competence. Ulrike Gonder persecuted like no one in our industry the literature. I personally appreciate for many years for their critical opinions, packaged in the most fluid formulations. Your books should be required reading for all dietitians.

I wish this book is that it learns the proper dissemination to maximize the numbers of diabetics to better health and quality of life.