Mayo Clinic Diabetes Diet

From Mayo Clinic, a leading authority in health and nutrition, comes The Mayo Clinic Diabetes Diet, adapted here for people with pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes from the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Mayo Clinic Diet. Here is a reliable plan to help you lose weight to control your blood sugar.

The specialists at Mayo Clinic have created a special diet, a two-phase plan, to help at-risk individuals to prevent and control diabetes by losing weight quickly and safely, then maintaining that weight loss.

Health and weight management can seem overwhelming to the more than 23 million Americans who suffer from type 2 diabetes as ell as the 79 million pre-diabetic adults. The Mayo Clinic Diabetes Diet presents two easy-to-follow phases that work—Lose it! and Live It! The diet is based on principles of The Mayo Clinic Diet, which is designed to help people safely lose 6-10 pounds in two weeks then continue to lose weight until they achieve a healthy weight that can be maintained.

The Lose It! phase of the diet is a simple, straight-forward two-week plan that encourages quick but safe weight loss that can help lower blood sugar. The Live It! phase offers basic and manageable steps and lifestyle changes that are designed to help participants lose one to two pounds each week until a healthy weight is reached and can be maintained.

This book is packed with meal plans, practical solutions, specific tips on how to lose weight safely. More, The Mayo Clinic Diet tackles the familiar obstacles that get in the way of weight loss—dislike of exercise, distaste of healthy food, too little time to cook well, a too hectic schedule, struggles with cravings, minimal support from family and friends and more.

"This diabetes diet isn't a fad: it's about changing your habits for the better," says Donald Hensrud, M.D., Mayo Clinic specialist in nutrition and internal medicine and medical editor-in-chief.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mayo Clinic first took root in farm fields near Rochester, Minn., in the late 1800s. It grew from the medical practice of a country doctor, William Worrall Mayo, and the partnership of his two sons, William J. and Charles H. Mayo—affectionately known as Dr. Will and Dr. Charlie.

The brothers' innovative ideas and tireless work in learning and creating new surgical techniques attracted international attention. Physicians from around the world came to watch the Mayo brothers perform surgery.