Reddit reviews Blood Sugar 101: What They Don't Tell You About Diabetes

What I've come to believe is that people have two options with treating type-2 diabetes. Basically they can place their trust in (most) doctors/the drug industry and The American Diabetes Association/and the sugar and grain producers trade lobbies and change very little in their lives. Keep literally poisoning themselves with the foods and destructive habits that are killing them, begin a program of treatment of extremely expensive medical intervention to supposedly counter all this, and then start the downward spiral of progressive disease that "experts" flatly say is inevitable. Or alternately, many of us believe that you can instead take charge of your own treatment, make some simple and cheap lifestyle changes that will almost certainly reverse your disease (if too much damage hasn't already been done to your body, which with most people at diagnosis it likely hasn't), and then go on to lead a healthy, happy and long normal life. But while the second option sounds like the obvious choice - or perhaps instead just a scam and a lie - the problem here is that it requires the intelligence to take charge of your own treatment. And the self discipline to make some lifestyle changes that, while easy to describe on paper, are anything but easy to accomplish in real life. Anyway...

If you want to go the second route, start learning. Alan has already linked to his site, and I'm particularly fond of this video as a quick and easy to watch intro. For a first book, I'd suggest "Blood Sugar 101" by Jenny Ruhl. Although there is much more you should read beyond this - authors like doctors Berstein, Fung, etc.. But in any case, good luck with whatever course you choose.

Reversing Type 2 diabetes starts with ignoring the guidelines