Summary
Our modern diet, high in low-quality carbohydrates, is damaging our bodies-producing a constant overload of sugar in our bloodstream that clogs up our arteries and piles hidden fat into our internal organs. The result has been a doubling in the number of type 2 diabetics, as well as a surge in those with a potentially hazardous condition-prediabetes. It is now known that even moderately elevated blood sugar levels can trigger heart disease, stroke, dementia, and cancer. Scientists have recently demonstrated that you can prevent and even reverse type 2 diabetes with a simple change in diet and lifestyle. Drawing on the work of professor Roy Taylor-one of the U.K.'s foremost diabetes experts-and his own experience as a one-time diabetic, Dr. Michael Mosley presents a groundbreaking, science-based, 8-week plan for diabetics who want to reverse their condition (and then stay off medication). He also offers a more flexible regime for people interested in the extensive health benefits to be gained from lowering their blood sugar levels and shedding dangerous fat.
Michael Mosley was born on March 22, 1957 in Kolkata, India. He studied philosophy, politics and economics at New College, Oxford. He worked as a banker for two years and decided to change careers and study medicine at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School and then move into psychiatry. His career took another turn as he joined a trainee assistant producer program at the BBC in 1985. He is best known as a presenter of television programs on biology and medicine, and his regular appearances on The One Show. Mosley produced a number of science programs. His work includes The Human Face, Inventions That Changed the World, Blood and Guts, Medical Mavericks, The Story of Science and The Truth About Exercise.
He has won numerous television awards, including a Royal Television Award. He was named Medical Journalist of the Year in 1995 by the British Medical Association.
He is the author of The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet and the coauthor, with Mimi Spencer, of The FastDiet.
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