Postdiabetic

Eric Edmeades, writing with Dr. Ruben Ruiz, begins with a blunt message for anyone living with type 2 diabetes, obesity or high blood pressure: the condition is not your fault, but turning it around is your responsibility. The authors say the burden of type 2 diabetes is driven in part by food manufacturers chasing profit, while also asking readers to look honestly at their own part in the problem.

They also take on a puzzling question. If type 2 diabetes can be reversed, why is it so often treated as a lifelong condition? Their answer is that selling drugs for a permanent condition pays far better than teaching people how to reverse it. They present their book as an alternative to that approach.

Postdiabetic lays out a nine-week plan that combines small lifestyle adjustments with deeper changes in how you think about food. You examine what you eat, when you eat and why you eat, and gradually shift your body from burning sugar to burning fat. The program also covers seasonal eating and cyclical eating patterns. By the end, readers should understand how the seasons work alongside the body and how to keep a healthy lifestyle going once the condition is reversed.