The Prediabetes Diet Plan How to Reverse Prediabetes and Prevent Diabetes through Healthy Eating and Exercise

A practical, empowering guide to managing and reversing prediabetes through diet and exercise, from a registered dietitian. 

Affecting 79 million Americans, prediabetes often develops into full-blown type 2 diabetes, one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Increasingly diagnosed by doctors, prediabetes is a condition in which blood sugar levels are elevated, but not yet high enough to be labeled diabetes. While diabetes cannot be cured, prediabetes can be reversed, so it is critical to take action at an early stage.

In straightforward, jargon-free language, The Prediabetes Diet Plan explains insulin resistance (the underlying cause of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes) and offers a comprehensive strategy of diet and lifestyle change, which has been proven more effective than medication. With sections on meal planning, grocery shopping, dining out, supplements, and exercise, this book empowers you to make healthier everyday choices that can effect real change on your insulin levels and overall well-being.

HILLARY WRIGHT is a registered and licensed dietitian with more than two decades of experience counseling clients on diet and lifestyle change. She is the director of nutrition counseling for the Domar Center for Mind/Body Health in Waltham, Massachusetts, where she specializes in diabetes prevention and women’s health issues. She also holds a part-time position as a nutritionist for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and is the author of The PCOS Diet Plan: A Natural Approach to Health for Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Hillary holds a bachelor’s degree in human nutrition from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a master’s of education in health education from Boston University.

Foreword   
Acknowledgments
Introduction   
 
Part 1: Defining Prediabetes and Its Causes   
Chapter 1: Understanding Prediabetes   
Chapter 2: Insulin Resistance Explained   
 
Part 2: The Prediabetes Diet Plan: Preventing Diabetes    
Chapter 3: Managing Your Carbohydrate   Intake to Reverse Prediabetes   
Chapter 4: Building a Balanced Plate: Carb-Distributed Diet Approach 1
Chapter 5: Carbohydrate Counting: Carb-Distributed Diet Approach 2  
Chapter 6: The Details of Counting Carbohydrates   
Chapter 7: Making It Happen: Meals and Snacks   
 
Part 3: Reversing Prediabetes Through Weight Loss, a Heart-Healthy Diet, and Exercise    
Chapter 8: The Prediabetes-Obesity Connection   
Chapter 9: Reducing Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease   
Chapter 10: Exercise: Time to Take It Seriously   
  
Part 4:  Fine-Tuning the Prediabetes   Diet Plan   
Chapter 11:  Sensible Supplementation   
Chapter 12: Mastering the Market: An Aisle-by-Aisle Shopping Guide   
Chapter 13: Considerations When Dining Out   
 
Part 5: Preventing Diabetes with a Healthy Mind-Set    
Chapter 14: Managing Emotions for Success   
Chapter 15: Devising Your Own Prediabetes Diet Plan   
 
Appendix 1: Sample Meal Plans  
Appendix 2: Food Journal   
Resources   
Notes   
About the Author   
Index