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THE END OF DIABETES
:
The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent and Reverse Diabetes.
Copyright © 2013 by Joel Fuhrman, M.D. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks.

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FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

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978-0-06-221997-8

Epub Edition © NOVEMBER 2012 ISBN: 9780062219992

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To determine the ANDI scores, an equal-calorie serving of each food was evaluated. The following nutrients were included in the evaluation: fiber, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, copper, manganese, selenium, vitamin A, beta carotene, alpha carotene, lycopene, lutein and zeaxanthin, vitamin E, vitamin C, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, vitamin B
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, folate, vitamin B
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, choline, vitamin K, phytosterols, and glucosinolates plus the ORAC score. ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) is a measure of the antioxidant, or radical, scavenging capacity of a food. For consistency, nutrient quantities were converted from their typical measurement conventions (mg, mcg, IU) to a percentage of their Reference Daily Intake (RDI). For nutrients that have no RDI, goals were established based on available research and current understanding of the benefits of these factors. Points were added if the food item was antiangiogenic or contained organosulfides, aromatase inhibitors, resistant starch, or resveratrol.

To make it easier to compare foods, the raw point totals were converted (multiplied by the same number) so that the highest ranking foods (leafy green vegetables such as mustard greens, kale, and collards) received a score of 1,000, and the other foods received lower scores accordingly.

 

 

 

 

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If he was my patient I would have also lowered the metformin dose by this point, or perhaps discontinued it.

 

 

 

 

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Mushrooms are best cooked, even stewed, for a few minutes. They contain a mild toxin called agaritine, that dissipates with even light cooking. To be conservative, because it is unknown if agaratine has negative health effects, I do not recommend eating much raw mushrooms. Nevertheless, mushrooms have powerful anticancer effects, and those powers are likely enhanced by cooking them.

 

 

 

 

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This was over 15 years ago. I am now especially careful in watching blood pressure, particularly when patients are on ACE inhibitors and can drop their blood pressure too low and injure their kidneys if the medications are not reduced or stopped in time.