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November 25, 2012 · 2:00 AM

This Is the Best Time Ever to Have Diabetes

Here’s a quote from a recent Diabetes Care:

Improved therapeutics and health care delivery have brought remarkable declines in the incidence of … complications, with a 50% reduction in amputations from their peak in 1997 and ∼35% reduction in the incidence of end-stage renal disease. Similarly, 10-year coronary heart disease risk dropped from 21% in 2000 to 16% in 2008.

Nevertheless, diabetes remains the leading cause of blindness, renal failure, nontraumatic lower-limb amputation, in adults 18 to 65 years of age. We gotta stay after it!

The essay by Dr. Robert Ratner also notes 79 million Americans with prediabetes. They need my Conquer Diabetes and Prediabetes book. It’s only $9.99 (USD), a drop in the ocean compared to the $174 billion spent on diabetes in 2007 in the U.S.

—Steve

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September 14, 2012 · 6:46 AM

Dr. Steve Parker at TuDiabetes for Live VideoChat Today

“May I have your attention, please”

At 1PM PST (Pacific Standard Time) today I’ll be doing a talk on the Mediterranean diet as applied to diabetes at TuDiabetes.org. I plan on a 20 or 30-minute monologue then I’ll entertain questions from listeners. Please join us! Just go to the TuDiabetes home page and you’ll see how to tune in.

-Steve

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January 25, 2012 · 6:48 AM

Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet Now in Book Form

A number of my patients and blog readers have asked for a more comprehensive presentation of the Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet. The KMD, as you may be aware, is the basis for the Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet. Both of them are in Conquer Diabetes and Prediabetes: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet.

Odd cover, huh?

The new book is geared for folks who don’t have diabetes, but want to lose weight with a very-low-carb diet. It’s called KMD: Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet. Readers of Conquer Diabetes and Prediabetes will get nothing out of the new book: they’ve seen it all before. Here’s the book description from Amazon.com:

Dr. Steve Parker presents the world’s first low-carbohydrate Mediterranean diet. Nutrition experts for years have recommended the healthy Mediterranean diet. It’s linked to longer life span and reduced rates of heart attack, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and dementia. Dr. Parker (M.D.) has modified the Mediterranean diet to help you lose excess weight while retaining most of the healthy foods in the traditional Mediterranean diet. What’s the secret? Cut back on the fattening carbohydrates such as concentrated sugars and refined starches.

You’ll discover how to manage your weight without exercise, without hunger, without restricting calories, while eating fish, meat, chicken, vegetables, fruits, wine, olive oil, nuts, and cheese.

The book includes advice on how to avoid weight regain, instruction on exercise, a week of meal plans, special recipes, a general index, a recipe index, and scientific references. All measurements are given in both U.S. customary and metric units. This low-carbohydrate Mediterranean diet is included also in Dr. Parker’s Advanced Mediterranean Diet (2nd edition) and Conquer Diabetes and Prediabetes. Are you finally ready to lose weight while eating abundantly and without counting calories?

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KMD: Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet is available for purchase at Amazon.com (Kindle edition here, also) or Barnes and Noble (Nook version here). The ebook version is available in multiple formats at Smashwords.

Steve Parker, M.D.

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August 19, 2011 · 1:00 PM

Save $3 on Book

For readers of my blogs, I’m offering a $3.00 (USD) discount off the usual retail price for Conquer Diabetes and Prediabetes: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet. You probably won’t find a better price anywhere—$13.95 plus shipping. To get the discount, you have to order from CreateSpace and enter this discount code when you order:

9V9B6FML

This is a time-limited offer, so make your decision within the next few days.

The book is available (without the discount) at Amazon.com, which also offers the Kindle edition. Other e-book formats are available at Smashwords for $9.99 (USD).

If those are all too expensive, explore the Diabetic Mediterranean Diet blog; most of the information is scattered herein. If you have diabetes or prediabetes, I want you to have this valuable information.

Steve Parker, M.D.

PS: I also authored an award-winning weight-loss book based on the traditional Mediterranean diet, The Advanced Mediterranean Diet: Lose Weight, Feel Better, Live Longer. For folks with diabetes or prediabetes, Conquer Diabetes is the better choice.

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June 21, 2011 · 11:21 AM

Mediterranean Diet for Diabetes

In 2009, Current Diabetes Reports published “The usefulness of a Mediterranean-based diet in individuals with type 2 diabetes,” by Catherine M. Champagne, Ph.D., R.D., L.D.N. Unfortunately, the full article isn’t available to you at no cost. But I read it. Her article is a review of available scientific evidence related to the Mediterranean diet as applied to a diabetic population. Here’s a quote:

This diet is a viable treatment option; advisors should stress not only adherence to a fairly traditional Mediterranean eating plan but also a lifestyle that includes sufficient physical activity.

I’ve been publishing my series on exercise here in dribs and drabs for the last several months.

Dr. Champagne was very favorably impressed with the DIRECT trial of Shai et al, which I covered extensively elsewhere. DIRECT compared three diets over 24 months: Atkins, Mediterranean/calorie-restricted, and low-fat/calorie-restricted. Mind you, it was a weight loss study, but a fair number of diabetics participated. Mediterranean-style eating showed the most beneficial effects for diabetics.

The author also mentions evidence that a modified Mediterranean diet may help counteract the build-up of fat in the liver, seen in up to 70% of type 2 diabetics. I wrote recently about how a very-low-carb diet beat the low-fat diet so often recommended for this condition (hepatic steatosis or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease).

If you want full online access to Champagne’s 6-page article, you can purchase it for $34 (USD) at SpringerLink. I cite many of the same scientific sources and provide a whole lot more in my 216-page Conquer Diabetes and Prediabetes: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet, at Amazon.com for $16.95 or $9.99 (the Kindle edition) or in multiple ebook formats from Smashwords.

Steve Parker, M.D.

Reference: Champagne, Catherine (2009). The usefulness of a Mediterranean-based diet in individuals with type 2 diabetes. Current Diabetes Reports DOI: 10.1007/s11892-009-0060-3

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May 27, 2011 · 7:07 AM

Dr. Robert Su Interviews Me

Ever wonder what I sound like?

Dr. Robert K. Su interviewed me for his podcast recently. That faint accent of mine is from Texas and Oklahoma.

Anyone with diabetes or prediabetes or worried about sugar toxicity is well-served by a close look at Dr. Su’s website, Carbohydrates Can Kill. Dr. Su has a degree in Pharmacy as well as a medical degree. He’s an anesthesiologist and pain managment specialist.

Steve Parker, M.D.

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February 11, 2011 · 2:00 AM

Unleashing “Conquer Diabetes and Prediabetes: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet”

My idea behind this blog has been to create an adaptation of the healthy Mediterranean diet for people with type 2 diabetes. The Mediterranean diet alone has too many carbohydrates for the average diabetic.

The initial adaptation has been done and available free here for many months. The whole shebang is now available in book and ebook form, entitled Conquer Diabetes and Prediabetes: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet.

You’ll find the printed version at Amazon.com and CreateSpace. The ebook is available in multiple formats at Smashwords, and the Kindle version is at the Kindle Store.

Compared with jumping from page to page at this website and using your own printer, the book’s a pretty good deal. It runs $16.95 (USD) at Amazon, and the ebook is $9.99.

What’s In the Book?

Here’s the news release:

Dr. Steve Parker has created the first-ever low-carbohydrate Mediterranean diet, designed for people with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes. His science-based plan blends the healthy components of the traditional Mediterranean diet with the ease and effectiveness of low-carb eating. Conquer Diabetes and Prediabetes: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet teaches how to lower blood sugars naturally, reduce or eliminate diabetic medications, and lose excess weight if needed.

Type 2 diabetics and prediabetics have lost the ability to process carbohydrates safely. Carbohydrates have become poisonous for them. Carb toxicity too often leads to numb and painful limbs, impaired vision, kidney failure, amputations, cancer, and premature heart attacks, strokes, and death.

Nutrition experts worldwide agree that the Mediterranean diet is the healthiest way of eating for the general public. It prolongs life and reduces rates of heart attack, stroke, cancer, and dementia. The only problem for diabetics is that it provides too many toxic carbohydrates.

Dr. Parker initially recommends a very-low-carb ketogenic diet for 12 to 18 weeks, then teaches the reader how to gradually add more healthy carbohydrates depending on blood sugar and body weight changes. Due to the toxic nature of carbohydrates in people with impaired blood sugar metabolism, most diabetics won’t be able to tolerate more than 80-100 grams of carbohydrate daily. (The average Western diet provides 250 grams.)

The book provides recipes, a week of menus, instruction on exercise, discussion of all available diabetic medications, advice on prevention of weight regain, lists of delicious doctor-approved foods, 71 scientific references, an annotated bibliography, and an index. All measurements are given both in U.S. customary and metric units.

Steve Parker, M.D., is a leading medical expert on the Mediterranean diet and author of the award-winning Advanced Mediterranean Diet: Lose Weight, Feel Better, Live Longer. He has over two decades’ experience practicing Internal Medicine and treating patients with diabetes and prediabetes.

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August 24, 2010 · 2:53 AM

“Advanced Mediterranean Diet” Has Gone Green

My 2007 book, The Advanced Mediterranean Diet: Lose Weight, Feel Better, Live Longer is now available in PDF format for $9.95 USD. It’s not a low-carb diet book, but a calorie-restricted, balanced diet incorporating the healthy features of the traditional Mediterranean diet. The physical book is also available from Amazon or CreateSpace.

My editor and I weren’t thinking globally when we finished the book: measurements are in U.S. customary units. The average reader can convert to other units with minimal hassle.

Loss of excess weight can be accomplished by measuring either carb grams or calories. If you can handle monitoring your calorie consumption—and I make it as easy as possible in the book—then the Advanced Mediterranean Diet is a good way to go. Due to the relatively high carbohydrate content of the traditional Mediterranean diet, however, people with diabetes or prediabetes should do better with carb-counting, as in the Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet or Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet.

Either way, I got you covered.

Steve Parker, M.D.

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August 19, 2010 · 2:00 AM

Top 50 Blogs About Diabetes

The Health Crazies website listed this blog among “The Top 50 Blogs About Diabetes.” You may want to check out some of the others listed, and my own blogroll to the right.

Thanks to Health Crazies.

Steve Parker, M.D.