The Diabetes Slayer’S Handbook: Preventing or Reversing Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes
By Stace Filan and Alan D. Raguso
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Just over eleven years ago, author Alan D. Raguso was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. He spent ten years battling raging A1Cs and ever-worsening blood-glucose readings; two and a half years ago, he started developing the beginning stages of retinal problems. Thats when Raguso decided to get serious about his health and resolved to find a way to beat diabetes.
In The Diabetes Slayers Handbook, he narrates his journey with the disease and presents a nonsurgical, nonprescription-drug intervention program that he discovered through his research and study of nutrition. He provides an understanding of the basics of prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, excess weight, sugar and carbohydrates, and metabolism, and he outlines diabetes-reversal techniques using everyday healthy foods combined with easy low-impact exercise.
The Diabetes Slayers Handbook dissects the components of diabetes and offers a game plan for attacking the disease to help diabetes sufferers get a handle on their health and their life.
Stace Filan
Alan D. Raguso has developed diabetes-reversal techniques that have helped him and others. He is a member of a hospital advisory committee for diabetes education for a local nonprofit organization that provides wellness education for prediabetics and type 2 diabetics. Raguso lives in Washington State.
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The Diabetes Slayer’S Handbook - Stace Filan
Copyright © 2012 by Alan D. Raguso
Illustrated by Stace Filan
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iUniverse rev. date: 9/26/2012
Contents
Disclaimer
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Terrorist
The Assault on Diabetes
Payback
Change Your Health Destiny
Your Doctor
Diabetes Education Is the Key
The Sinking Ship
The Metabolic Syndrome
Diabesity
A Word about Weight
Sleep—or the Lack of It
Glucose Spikes and Dawn Phenomenon: Tips to Avoid Them
You’ve Got to Pay for the Bus Ride
Poker
The Food Groups
The MAID: Mediterranean Anti-inflammation Diet
The Economics of the MAID
Counting Processed Carbohydrates and Processed Sugars
The Quick Reference Guide
Voodoo
The Four Bs
The Three Ps P = (P/P)
Stocking Your Food Arsenal
Rewiring Your Brain: Flip the Switch That Kills Appetite and Glucose Spikes
Food Allergies: Wheat, Gluten, and Soy
Low-Resistance Interval Training: LRIT (Lower It
)
A Stronger Pancreas
Five Key Hormones You Should Know About
Timing Is Everything
Do Your Best
Questions and Answers
Wonderland
Health Warriors
Good Hunting
Summary
Conclusion
About the Author
Resources
Pull-Out Reference Guide
Disclaimer
This book is not intended as a substitute for professional medical care.
The information in this book is intended to help you make informed decisions about your health.
Only your doctor can diagnose and treat a medical problem. If you think you have a medical problem, you should seek competent medical help from your doctor or a certified diabetes educator.
Dedication
To Roger Rojo
We all miss you, Roger
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank the following people:
My son, Douglas, for unknowingly inspiring me to reverse my diabetes; my daughter, Katy, for continually encouraging me to write; Stace, my son-in-law, for the book cover illustrations; my doctor, who never quit believing in me; Megan Eaton for the design work on the Safe House
illustration; Pat Richmond for the assistance with editing; the Certified Diabetes Educators of Walla Walla, Washington; and my wife, Linda, who has been with me every step of the way.
Last but by no means least, I want to thank my fellow prediabetes, type 1– and type 2–diabetes patients and obese and morbidly obese people.
Introduction
A Book Designed by a Diabetes Patient for Diabetes Patients
This is a motivational book. I’m a type 2 R patient. The R stands for reversed.
Have you been diagnosed with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes? Do you have a family member or friend struggling with the effects of this disease that we are told is chronic
or lifelong? The common thought is that you will continue to lose ground to this condition. I was in your shoes for ten years, and I understand what you are going through. But now I’m off all medication, and I’ve been off diabetic medications for two years. My A1C, glucose-monitor readings, fasting-glucose readings, cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood pressure, along with weight changes and muscle development, have been stunning. I’ve experienced a remarkable turnaround.
If you are tired of being frightened, confused, and frustrated, then please read on.
I grew up knowing that diabetes was prevalent in my family. Also, I battled excess weight all