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The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan
Living Well and Being Fit with Diabetes, No Matter Your Weight
Marlowe & Company, 2006
Foreword by Dr. Anne Peters, Author of Conquering Diabetes
The latest, horrifying health statistics are in: A diabetes epidemic is currently overwhelming
the United States and the world and is expected to expand
rapidly in the coming decades. Furthermore, kids born
today have a one-in-three chance (or greater) of developing
diabetes in their lifetime. Most of the 20.8 million Americans
currently living with diabetes have been advised by their
doctors or others that weight loss is essential for them
to control their condition and stay healthy. However,
the vast majority of dieters fail miserably at dieting,
ultimately regaining the pounds they manage to lose. At
least 42 million more people (most of whom are overweight)
have pre-diabetes, an insulin-resistant state that puts
them next in line to develop the potentially debilitating
health condition known as type 2 diabetes.
The latest research confirms, though,
that diabetic people do not have to lose significant amounts
of body fat to be healthy. In fact, people who continually
lose and regain large amount of weight frequently end
up fatter than ever, and with a greater risk of developing
heart disease. Late-breaking studies show that 90 minutes
of weekly exercise alone reduces insulin resistance, independently
of calorie restriction and/or weight loss!
While others erroneously continue
to focus on unrealistic expectations of weight loss as
the best way to achieve control of diabetes, The 7 Step
Diabetes Fitness Plan is the only book on the market that
effectively guides you to achieve a healthy body despite
having excess body fat and diabetes or prediabetes – primarily
by becoming physically fit.
Written in a manner that anyone can
easily understand and relate to, The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness
Plan covers the basics relating to the prevention, reversal,
and control of diabetes through fitness. Some of the topics
covered are as follows:
How to be fit and healthy, even if you are diabetic or pre-diabetic and still overweight
What it means to be physically “fit”
Physical activities that are most beneficial to health and diabetes control
and prevention
Strategies for increasing structured and unstructured physical activity
Control of blood sugars and diabetic complications with physical activity
The role of nutrition in fitness
Nutritional strategies to accentuate fitness
Emotional fitness and exercise
The role of medications and supplements in the treatment of diabetes
Motivational tips for the achievement of lifelong fitness
No other book currently on the market specifically focuses
on the role of fitness in living well with diabetes or pre-diabetes rather
than weight loss – even though the latest research
supports this concept. The result of Dr. Colberg’s
years of professional and personal involvement with diabetes,
physical activity, and nutritional issues, The 7 Step
Diabetes Fitness Plan is an invaluable resource that will
appeal to anyone with diabetes or the millions of others
at risk for developing the condition.
Reviews of The 7 Step Diabetes
Fitness Plan:
”A must for all people
with type 2 diabetes who want to take control of their
disease...Its practical
program of diet and physical exercise
will help everyone who has diabetes or is at risk for
diabetes improve their
health.”
Richard S. Surwit, Ph.D., Duke University
Medical Center, Author of The Mind-Body Diabetes Revolution
”
The important message from this book
is that losing weight may not be
the panacea it was once thought to be for people with type 2 diabetes. In fact,
becoming fit may have a greater effect
on your blood glucose
control than losing weight...Colberg,
an exercise physiologist, explains this in detail and then gives useful tips
on
how to work more exercise into your
daily regimen, how to exercise, and how to stay motivated to exercise.”
Gretchen Becker, Author of The First
Year - Type 2 Diabetes and Prediabetes:
What You Need to Know to Keep Diabetes
Away
To
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