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In
1946, I developed diabetes. According to statistics, I should
have been dead years ago. But today I am in excellent health
and have outlived all but a handful of people who developed
diabetes when I did.
Twenty-seven years ago, I had
already suffered many of the disorders long associated with
diabetes, and even my doctor, who was president of the American
Diabetes Association, could do nothing to slow their advance.
Today the progression of those
complications has long been stopped, and some of them have
reversed. I’m healthier now than I was then. I still
have diabetes. My body still makes no insulin, and I have
to have injections every day. How am I different from all
those who have died, and all those whose bodies are disintegrating
because of chronically high blood sugars? I haven’t
had any sort of transplant I haven’t had any miracle
drug.
Recent research has repeatedly
demonstrated what I learned serendipitously more than
a quarter-century ago, that the grave long-term consequences
of the nation’s third leading cause of death can be
prevented and even reversed if caught in time. How? By keeping
blood sugars normal around the clock.
Despite this knowledge, the
procedures for attaining blood sugar normalization are only
practiced at a few research centers and by a handful of enlightened
physicians, and educators.
My book and this column will
attempt to present nearly everything I know about blood sugar
normalization, how it can be accomplished and maintained.
With it, I hope that you will help your patients learn to
take control of their diabetes, whether it’s Type I
(juvenile-onset), as mine is, or the much more common Type
II (maturity-onset) diabetes. To my knowledge, there is no
other book in print addressed strictly to blood sugar control
for both types of diabetes.
They also contain much material
that may be new to many physicians and educators treating
diabetes. It is my hope that doctors and health care professionals
will use it, learn from it, and do their best to help their
patients take control of this deadly but controllable
disease.
The book, though it contains
considerable background information on diet and nutrition,
is intended primarily as a comprehensive how-to guide to blood
sugar control, including detailed instructions on techniques
for painless insulin injection and so on.
If, you seriously help your
patients follow the guidelines taught in this book, you should
be able to help them avoid the discomfort of inappropriate
blood sugar swings, and perhaps be able to prevent or reverse
the development of the grave complications long associated
with chronically high blood sugars.
Richard K Bernstein, M.D.,
F.A.C.E., F.A.C.N., C.W.S.
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