I'm a Type 2 Diabetic that has had great success following the dietary recommendations Dr. Bernstein puts forth. His pragmatic diet has been a great help in moving my A1c down to the normal range. I've lost a needed 50 pounds. Overall, this book is loaded with good information for diabetics.

It was only through Bernstein's book that I was able to appreciate the importance of maintaining a low carbohydrate diet if I were to ever achieve "normalized" blood glucose and hope to avoid the long term complications associated with the disease. Bernstein, first trained as an engineer, later as an M.D., offers a wonderful "nuts and bolts" approach to maintenance of diabetes whether type 1 or type 2. His standard of control set the bar high where, in my opinion, it needs to be. I wish that my Father, who died of diabetes complications, had been privy to his approach and had available to him the instant test methods for blood glucose that are now available.

Korban

This book was a wellspring of information for me as a newly diagnosed type 2 diabetic. Getting off the cycle of being told to eat complex carbs, seeing my blood glucose spike from doing just what I was told, and getting medications increased again and again, I read what Dr. Bernstein said with interest. After trying his recommendations I can say with no reservations that this book may have saved my life! I highly recommend it to anyone who has pre-diabetes or diabetes and hope that the general medical community opens their eyes. After only one day of this diet my blood glucose readings were close to normal, and continue to stay there, with less medication. My energy levels are high and I have felt better than I have in a long long time. Kudos to you Dr. Bernstein, for daring to say the truth! I recommend both his books and also Dr. Atkins Diabetes Revolution to anyone who wants to learn about diabetes and diet.

I have done a lot of research on diabetes at the library and on the internet after I was diagnosed Type 2 in Aug 2007. I saw the dietician/nutritionist recommended by my doctor and also real a ton of information on the internet and many books from the local library. My fasting blood sugar when I was diagnosed was 311. I was able to get it down to 110 - 120 level after dieting, exercising, and eating the things recommended by the dietician. My problem was my levels were erractic up and down even when eating the same diet.

I saw Dr. Bernstein's book was highly recommended by Amazon readers, so I took the chance and bought the book. After reading that a diet of high proteins and very, very low carbs would help stabilize my blood sugars, I decided to try it. To my amazement, I started gettings readings in the mid 80's and the levels stopped spiking up and down. Carbs were my problem. Dr. Bernstein recommends an ideal reading of 83 and that is now my target.

This book should be a must read for all diabetics, both Type 1 and Type 2 people. My motto is "you can die from diabetes or learn to live with it," and I chose to learn to live with it. This book is a great learning tool and coupled with exercise (including weight training), weight loss and proper diet, you can control what happens to your body. It worked for me with results immediately.

Highly, highly recommended. If you have a friend or relative with diabetes, BUY this book for them. The author (Dr Berstein) is still a practicing physcian specializing in diabetes treatment. He is also a Type 1 diabetic. Dr Berstein's experiences lead to this book being published. It should be required reading for all diabetics.

The best book I have ever read on the subject. The fact that Dr. Bernstein has lived, studied, and found solutions for this disease makes this book a requirment. Anyone who wants to take command over this disease should get this book.

I was diagnosed with prediabetes in the fall of 2007, after having suffered from severe and debilitating chronic fatique and nerve pain for almost a year. When I started checking my blood sugars, I was shocked to see how high they were and immediately started looking for a diet that could help me bring those numbers down. My doctor had recommended a low carb diet, so I looked here at Amazon and found Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution. I started his diet in October of 2007.

My blood sugars immediately came down, and my cholesterol and triglycerides have normalized -- total cholesterol has dropped from 241 to 172, LDL dropped from 161 to 94, HDL rose from 51 to 61, triglycerides dropped from 143 to 85. The nerve pain in my arm is now clearing up, I believe I had diabetic neuropathy and did not even know it before.

Dr. Bernstein's diet is not hard to follow, once you reduce your carb intake your carb cravings will diminish and you really don't miss the carbs. And your energy levels will skyrocket so you will have the ability to exercise again! Diabetes management that seemed impossible before will suddenly become possible again!

I'm so happy I found Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution -- he has literally given me back my life!!

Extremely informative and very focused. It will take extreme effort on most to follow the prescription, but, the results are hard to deny.

I highly recommend the 30-Day Diabetes Miracle series for managing your diabetes and creating a whole new healthy lifestyle!

The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle: Lifestyle Center of America's Complete Program to Stop Diabetes, Restore Health,and Build Natural Vitality

The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle Cookbook: Stop Diabetes with an Easy-to-Follow Plant-Based, Carb-Counting Diet

There is a saying that the diabetes community knows only too well - your milage may vary (YMMV). This is certainly true when following any plan or program to manage your diagnosis. You must understand and experiment how your body will react based on your existing beta cells, pancreatic and liver function, other conflicting and supporting hormones etc. This book is completely open about these issues and about how to acheive basic control of your diabetes. Type 1, Type 2, Type 3 (hybrid types too) all types for that matter can use all of Dr. B's work. True it is a challenge to change your eating, exercise and social behaviors but it can be done. My heart goes out to vegetarians who have a harder time with more narrow options, but it can be done. This is not a program for rich people or poor people but sick people who will greatly benefit. If you can't afford the book go to Dr. B's website and there are large sections of the book available and the forum that his site links to and support is full of compassionate and helpful advice as well. Live longer!

This book explained every question I've had about how to manage Diabetes. There is information you will never get from your own Dr. and certainly not from a nutritionist. He tells you what meds to take and what not to take and why. He tells you what to eat and not to eat, artificial sugars to use and not to use. He tells you how to save your own life.

This is an updated edition of the original book of the same title.
I read Dr Bernstein's original about 3 months after my T2 diagnosis & consider that it literally saved my life!
Dr Bernstein's approach is to maintain blood glucose levels in the range of the normal non-diabetic (70-99mg/dl & HbA1c 4.5% to 6%), which most of the medical community doesn't even think possible, but it is.

Glycosylated Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is the best (only really) indicator we have for the risk of diabetic complications as shown by two extensive long-term studies (DCCT & UKPDS) & Dr Bernstein's approach & method is to keep blood glucose & HbA1c well down into the normal non-diabetic range to minimize complication risk.

Most of the medical community are satisfied with mediocre blood glucose & HbA1c goals that are still in the range that have elevated complication risk. Not Dr Bernstein!

I consider this book an excellent education on diabetes, complications, & a "how to" for achieving those "normal non-diabetic blood glucose levels".
This is a "must read" for all diabetics who don't want to wind up with blindness, kidney failure or limb amputations to mention just a few of the complications that are filling our hospitals.

Dr. Bernstein's book is a very good resource.

He states he has been diabetic since age 12 and became a doctor to advocate for other diabetics. The book is very good guide for anyone facing this illness.

Dr. Bernstein is a type 1 diabetic and had just about every sympton possible. He figured out the "diabetes code" and clearly explains how to control your diabetes. His cure is exactly opposite to that of the medical establishment. He was educated as an engineer, then became a medical doctor late in life. His book is designed to educate and not to impress how smart he is. Buy it.
David Smith

This book takes all the 'pleasure' out of being a diabetic. It gives a good primer on the basics of diabetes. Then it departs from much of the convention of diabetes treatment in terms of diet. Basically, Dr. Bernstein advocates a diet devoid of almost all carbohydrates (he "hasn't had a piece of fruit in 40 years"). His advice is based on techniques he has refined over 40+ years and they have obviously worked very well for him, a Type 1 diabetic who went much of his early life improperly treated. That he is still alive today is a testament to his regimen's efficacy. However, it is a truly Draconian approach that essentially strips most food-based pleasure from your life. Also, he advocates regular, strenuous exercise to build muscles (building muscles reduces insulin resistance). He is less interested in aerobic exercise, although he acknowledges its cardiovascular benefits if practiced strenuously (not a jog, but a demanding pace that begins (on a treadmill) at a slope that exhausts you in 20 seconds, then lowering the slope and continuing, etc). As in the anerobic exercise, he warns against rest periods. The idea is only through pain do you build muscles including those of the heart. I found the book very informative, but his techniques very scary. As an almost 70-year old man, I'm not sure I'm equal to his demanding regimen. I bet it works; but I don't know how much pleasure you'll get from living all those extra years if you're constantly craving starches and rest.

Dr. Bernstein has researched and developed the most sensible approach to controlling blood sugar in both Type I and Type II diabetics that I have ever encountered.

Unlike the ADA advice my doctor and the diabetes educators gave me, this book works.

I have normal blood sugars, my cholesterol and triglycerides are normal again, and I am no longer spilling protein in my urine.
I have lost 70 pounds and kept it off.
My A1C results at 4.8% are very much in the non-diabetic range.

Better than all that, I can feel my feet again.
I had diabetic neuropathy that made my feet numb and I did not even realize it before.

With my blood sugars staying between 80 and 100, the feeling has been returning to my feet and the numbness is fading.

Dr. B, my little girl will thank you when she is old enough to understand that you saved her daddy's life!

Get this book.

Interesting and informative book! This book is helpful for all diabetics--even those who are very knowledgeable about diabetes. There's always something more to learn about this disease. The diet is very restrictive and challenging to follow. But, a person's health does win out ultimately.

This is the most informative book I have found on treating Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes with diet, exercise, oral medications, and insulin. It is the only book I know of that tells how to manage blood sugar well, and its methods simply work. I have read the book more than once, and each time I read it, I get something more from it. I would highly recommend this book to anyone with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, or pre-diabetes. The diet is also very effective, and I would recommend it to anyone having difficulty losing weight, though "Diabetes Diet" (Bernstein) might be more appropriate to that, if medications are not needed.

I am slowly building up my library, and I have gotten something from each book. I would have to agree that this book is geared more towards Type 1's, but is is still useful for us Type 2's. I found most parts useful, some not so useful. The author talks a lot about ways to use insulin, but I have been off insulin for over a year, so those parts I skipped over. He also lost me on the diet--banning milk, fruit, and whole grains wipes out almost all of my breakfasts and lunches--and I don't have the time to cook the breakfasts he recommends before I leave for work. Nonetheless, I fould this books to be educational and useful.

The book gave me insight into a Diabetes diet which no Dcotor had in the 10 years that I've been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes.

In March 2007, my internist recommended treatment of my diabetes with medication. I had glyco hemaglobin A 1 c values of 6.6 and 6.7 over the last 6 months. I asked my physician to hold off on medication and I purchased a copy of Dr Bernstein's Diabetes Solution. I read the chapters on diet and closely followed Dr Bernstein's advice to avoid glucose and carbohydrates. I was concerned that my cholesterol would elevate as I was eating bacon and eggs for breakfast four or five days per week. My June 2007 blood test revealed glyco hemagobin A 1 c level of 5.6. All my cholesterol values improved. Total cholesterol went from 169 to 130. HDL improved from 50 to 54. LDL improved fro 106 to 70. My triglycerides dropped from 65 to 30. I am thrilled with my improvement which I achieved by following Dr Berstein's recommendations. I have since read other chapters and awareness of the problems of diabetes strongly motivates me to follow Dr Bernstein's recommendations. Dr Bernstein has helped me.

As a nurse for 27 years, I have seen the decline in quality health care in the United States. Healthcare here is a privilege, not a right and as such patients are now "customers". I am amazed at the number of physicians that are coming into practice that have the "monkey see, monkey do" attitude. Many shuffle patients through their offices like cattle in a chute as they have to see a certain amount to make the money. When you are in their office they just want to write a script for the latest pill and send you on your way. This results in very little time for a quality health assessment and advice. Dr. Bernstein's books ( I have ordered the Diabetes Solution and just finished the Diabetes Diet) are a 180 approach to treating diabetes. He answers the questions you have and those you did not know you had. He is a true scientist in every sense of the word.
Through his amazing work, he tells people how to live a better, healthier life with diabetes. I am not diabetic...yet. I am having a problem with insulin resistance. I am 50, very overweight and for the last two years have craved sweets like a Heroin addict. While the diet is very restrictive to those carbs that will cause a quick rise in you blood sugar (bad for diabetics AND nondiabetics) I consider myself to be an addict and need to stop these types of foods to live a better life (and a longer one). If you see yourself in any of these reviews, please get a copy of the book....somehow, even if only at the library. It can save a life. Whether your diabetic or not, this is the lifestyle you should strive for. We must stop blindly following health advice when that advice has been proven detrimental to our health and well-being.
Dr. Bernstein's books are the light at the end of your tunnel. Keep walking toward it and you will not be sorry.

I regard Dr. Bernstein as the top authority for Diabetes. This book will give a diabetic all the information required to completely understand his/her condition. I do not have the discipline to follow his recommended diet...however, with the understanding of Carbs, I can with diligence control blood sugars. I give more credence to the Glycemic Index than Dr. Bernstein...seems to work for me. I do not hesitate to recommend this book to all diabetics and partners of diabetics!

I've read his books before, but had neglected to follow his advice. My blood sugars kept rising until I decided it was time to reread, and found his new updated version. I am now back on the right course, my blood sugars have decreased markedly, and will be armed with proper information for my Endocronologist to really help me. My only regret is not living close enough to use Dr. Bernstein personnally. Your life and quality of life depend on reading this book!

As with his first book, this book has more great information for me as a Type 2 Diabetic. Although my wife is not diabetic, we love ALL the recipe's in both books. They have kept my blood sugar in total control and are delicious! Thanks Dr. Bernstein!

This book is well worth buying if you, or someone you love, has this disease. It has some amazing statistics. And if you really follow this diet, it does work! In fact, more than one person I know who went on this diet no longer needs to take any of the meds they needed before they went on this diet. The recipes are easy to make and excellent. It is not a tough diet to stick to at all. I highly recommend this book and the diet.

This book is mostly for those with Diabetes one.
This is his second book.
His first book was a good one and full of useful info for both types of Diabetes.
If you are a Diabetic type I then this book is for you.
If you are a Diabetic II then buy his first book.
I am a Diabetic II and this book was really a waste of my money.

This is the third book by Dr. Bernstein that I have read and it's seems impossible but each one of his books has more and more to offer. If you have Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes, you absolutely must read this book.

I read the first edition, about 6 years ago. It saved my husband's life. My husband is a type 2 diabetic. After seeing his doctor faithfully every 3 to 6 months for 20 years and taking his medications, he became more and more ill. He was at a point of taking 43 units of insulin a night, could hardly walk more than 75 or 100 feet, weighed 270 pounds, his Hemoglobin A1c was 11, he was always tired out, depressed and hell to live with.

After reading Dr. Bernstein's book, I knew that my husband could be helped. I put him on a program of low carb and exercise and the results were nothing short of a miracle. He has been off (completely off!) of insulin for over 3 years, he walks 2 miles at the local gym every day, has energy to burn and has lost 80 pounds! His HA1c is 6.5. Best of all he is back to being himself. He is happy again and so am I. We are going into our 5th year of low carb lifestyle and exercise daily. Something I never would have dreamed of doing before reading Dr. Bernstein's book.

Dr. Bernstein is one of the voices in the wilderness. His book clearly explains what you need to do to overcome this disease and he should know - he has been a Type 1 diabetic since the age of 12 years old.

Dr. Bernstein was an engineer in his earlier years. He approached diabetes through the eyes of an engineer, working the problem until he came up with a solution. The medical profession would not listen to him (and why would they - when they get a diabetic patient, they and the pharmaceutical companies have a patient for life!). When he was 45 years old, he went back to school and became a physician!

The American Diabetes Association recommends a diet of 60% carbohydrates!!!! That is absolutely wrong! Dr. Bernstein can explain it to you. Read this book. Save your life or the life of someone you love.

I would give this book 10 stars if that rating was available to me.

Diabetes is a disease that used to only afflict young children when Type 1 was so dominant. But now it's the 21st Century and Type 2 diabetes hasn't just risen, but exploded into a full-fledged epidemic as one of the biggest health threats of our day. What's really scary is the fact that the problem is expected to get that much worse over the next few decades. Yikes!

In 1997, Dr. Richard K. Bernstein first introduced what would become the pinnacle diabetes bible to the world when he published the first edition of The Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars. Controversial, against the grain, but extremely effective, the low-carbohydrate dietary approach to treating diabetes has never been more clearly explained.

Now, Dr. Bernstein has revised and expanded his classic bestselling book to make it even better than it was when it released a decade ago. As a man who has lived with Type 1 diabetes since childhoood, he knows from whence he speaks and now wants to help others find the "solution" that he dicovered a long time ago.

Controlling diabetes as much as possible without little to no use of insulin or medications is the goal of The Diabetes Solution. While the American Diabetes Association (ADA) feels good about recommending a high-carb, low-fat diet (which requires HIGHER doses of insulin and prescription diabetes drugs), Dr. Bernstein believes that is the wrong way to go about managing blood sugars.

Written in a very informative and entertaining style, this book answers all those little nagging questions diabetics may have about this method of treatment, including the uniquely damaging role of carbohydrate in the diet, what the best pharmaceuticals and how they can help, a comprehensive look at the various types of insulin and which should be used, and what to do to manage your disease naturally.

Is low-carb dieting controversial? Sure. But so are a whole lot of other things that we used to think were strange, but now they're normal years later after much research has proven them to be true. The same goes for the low-carb lifestyle as a treatment option for diseases like diabetes and aiding in weight loss. The science is catching up to a reality that Dr. Bernstein unveiled years ago.

I personally lost nearly 200 pounds on this way of eating. Although I don't have diabetes, it runs in my family and I was borderline when I weighed over 400 pounds. But then I started a low-carb diet in 2004 and changed my life forever. Dr. Robert C. Atkins, like Dr. Bernstein, was also before his time espousing the benefits of livin' la vida low-carb.

Living with diabetes need not be a hopeless situation where you feel all alone. Dr. Bernstein has The Diabetes Solution and wants you to experience the freedom that comes from knowing you can beat your diabetes. Never give up the hope for a better life, even with diabetes.

Dr. Bernstein, we salute you for your contribution to diabetes management and low-carb living. You should be honored and hailed for standing up for what you know is right and refusing to just settle for the failed methods for treating your diabetes. I think your life speaks for itself. CONGRATULATIONS!

The most important message of this book is that on your own you can get better control of your diabetes. Years ago, Dr. Bernstein realized that what he ate affected his blood sugar levels, contrary to the belief of the medical establishment at that time. Following his example, you can test your blood sugar with your meter and analyze the effects of various foods and of your medications. I have done that and have found that I don't have to be as restrictive with my diet as Dr. Bernstein is in his. Also, I have been able to reduce the amount of insulin that I inject.

After following a lot of his suggestions, I feel so much better: I have lost the tiredness and hunger that I felt before. It's really great. I have achieved tight blood sugar control, which puts me in a small percentage of diabetics. I don't think that I could have done this without the guidance of the previous edition (The new book has some new information).

Also, Dr. Bernstein's personal story is inspiring and a good read in itself.

I had suffered from Type 2 diabetes for 11 years until I found Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution. There are few books on the subject that I had not read so when I saw his 2003 edition last year, I added it to my collection. It has also, for the first time in 12 years, given me the knowledge to obtain normal blood sugar levels throughout the day. Apparently we can not cure diabetes but there is one solution I can attest to and that is Dr. Bernstein's solution. Normalizing blood sugars stop the damage from diabetes and can even reverse some to the damage the disease has done to the body. The book is well organized, it is easy to read for any layperson and it is complete. This new edition has kept the simplicity of the previous editions and added new information on ways of beating this debilitating disease. It is a MUST READ for diabetics and those who love them.

The problem with most diabetic care is that is is advocated by healthcare professionals who have no personal experiental knowledge of the disease from living with it and managing it on a daily round the clock basis through ordinary events of daily living as well as crisis situations and travel. Dr. Bernstein has been a diabetic since the age of 12 and has experienced the ravages of the disease on the body and through his inquisitve and engineering background has applied these principles in his quest to normalize his own blood sugars. From buying the first glucose monitor for personal useage and through trial and error developing a diabetic management protocol, he learned how to normalize his own blood sugars and that there could be reversal of many of the adverse effects of the disease provided they had not reached the point of irreveribility. He went on to medical school when many of his writings were not accepted by the medical community. He has been actively treating diabetics from around the world helping them to normalize their blood sugars by putting into practice the library of his knowledge and practical solutions that will not only normalize anyone's blood glucose if they heed his instructions but will also help prevent if nor reverse some or many of the potential complications. I personally have been a diabetic for a number of years and even employed an insulin pump for several years. I have had extensive diabetic counselling but still failed to maintain what I considered to be an oxymoron, i.e. control of my disease. I became very frustrated and was really on the verge of giving up. I realized that things like dialysis, stroke and heart problems were approaching unless I could do something. I had already developed significant peripheral neuropathy. When I discovered his books, I read them and applied what he said and began experiencing immediatiate improvement on a consistent predictable basis. I have personally been treated by Dr. Bernstein but if you can't see him personally in addtion to reading and folowing his book then BUY THE BOOK and religiously follow it. If you have been a diabetic for years, you will have the necessary experience to understand and make the corrections with the help of your personal physician. If you are a newly diagnosed diabetic, this will give you the opportunity to prevent many or all of the mistakes and frustrations of managing this disease and its serious complications. DR. BERNSTEIN'S METHODS WORK! IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW THEM, YOU ONLY HAVE YOURSELF TO BLAME!

Excellent book...well worth reading by anyone battling diabetes either type and by anyone concerned for someone who is in that situation.

I have battled diabetes for over 7 years now and am fairly well read but Dr Bernstein has taught me fresh ways to battle the situation.

Delighted with the speedy service.

Regards

Roy N.

Dr. Bernstein was, as his book will tell you, diagnosed in 1946 at the age of 12 with type 1 diabetes. He should have been dead a long time ago. So why isn't he? Because he was first to figure out how to live a long and healthy life as a diabetic.

He is the first diabetic on the planet to monitor his own blood sugars with a blood sugar meter. The first. How many millions do this now?

He was first to recommend a low carb diet for diabetics, and fought against the ADA for years. Only since the publication of his books have they started, ever so slowly, to come around to his way of thinking.

The man should win a Nobel Prize for Medicine for what he's accomplished in his lifetime treating diabetes, and using himself as a guinea pig. This is no exaggeration. He has saved countless lives, and if this book were better known, he could save millions more.

It's time for the medical community to stop acting like diabetics are stupid or lazy and wholly embrace his way of treating diabetes.

This is THE book for anyone who wants to control their diabetes instead of it controlling them.

Dr. Bernstein was, as his book will tell you, diagnosed in 1946 at the age of 12 with type 1 diabetes. He should have been dead a long time ago. So why isn't he? Because he was first to figure out how to live a long and healthy life as a diabetic.

He is the first diabetic on the planet to monitor his own blood sugars with a blood sugar meter. The first. How many millions do this now?

He was first to recommend a low carb diet for diabetics, and fought against the ADA for years. Only since the publication of his books have they started, ever so slowly, to come around to his way of thinking.

The man should win a Nobel Prize for Medicine for what he's accomplished in his lifetime treating diabetes, and using himself as a guinea pig. This is no exaggeration. He has saved countless lives, and if this book were better known, he could save millions more.

It's time for the medical community to stop acting like diabetics are stupid or lazy and wholly embrace his way of treating diabetes.

This is THE book for anyone who wants to control their diabetes instead of it controlling them.

(Newly revised and updated)

Dr. Bernstein is a diabetic himself, diagnosed in 1946 at age 12. Over the years he has developed his own special way of keeping his blood sugar levels at appropriate levels, which managed to keep him healthy and from suffering many of the standard serious health problems associated with diabetes. He believes in arming patients with information to control their disease themselves. This book covers new oral medications, new insulins, and new dietary supplements. Bernstein's views differ from the American Diabetes Association, particularly in his recommendation of a low carbohydrate diet, avoidance of certain types of oral medications, and using nutrients to lower insulin resistance.

This very complete book includes some patient stories, chapters on the basics, tests, how and when to measure blood sugar, treatments, diet, weight loss, exercise, insulin information, and recipes. There is an excellent glossary and an index, in addition to useful appendices. Well written and easy to understand, it is over 500 pages of useful information.

Some important and surprising statistics:

-- 25% of Americans between age 65 and 74 are Type 2 diabetics.
-- One in three babies born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes during their lifetimes.
-- Every day 1,400 people are diagnosed with diabetes.
-- It is third leading cause of death (and contributes to high blood pressure, heart disease, infections, that also are factors in deaths).

Armchair Interviews says: It is very important to know about this disease.