The Diabetes Plan

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Author
Peter Brukner
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Genre
Non Fiction
Released
14 March, 2023
ISBN
9781761263750

The Diabetes Plan

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Synopsis

At age 60, Dr Peter Brukner was diagnosed with pre-diabetes, despite having followed the dietary advice of his own profession all of his adult life.

Intrigued, Peter did a deep dive into the research, and quickly reversed his dietary practices, ditching high-carb, low-fat for low-carb, high-fat.

He lost 13 kilograms and dramatically improved his metabolic health. To help others achieve remission, Peter created an online program, which has seen thousands of Australians lose weight and reverse type 2 diabetes.

In The Diabetes Plan, Peter shares his approach to diet, along with meal plans, testimonials and more than 45 recipes.

Accessible, authoritative and effective, this is a one-stop guide to how to avoid diabetes, reverse a type 2 diabetes diagnosis, and reduce (or ditch) the need for diabetes medication.

Peter Brukner
About the author

Peter Brukner

Peter Brukner OAM, MBBS, FACSP, FACSM, FASMF, FFSEM is a medical doctor and specialist sports and exercise medicine physician.

Peter is a world renowned sports medicine clinician and researcher. He was the founding partner at the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne, has served two terms as president of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians, is the co-author of the 'bible' of sports medicine Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine, and has been team doctor to amateur and professional sporting teams such as Melbourne and Collingwood (AFL), National swimming, hockey, athletics, soccer and cricket teams as well as Liverpool Football Club in the English Premier league. Peter is Professor of Sports Medicine at La Trobe University in Melbourne.

Peter's second passion, which has developed over the last few years, is nutrition. He believes that most of what we have been told about what to eat over the last 40 years has been wrong, and as a result we have epidemics of obesity and chronic diseases such as Type 2 diabetes. Peter is the Founder and Chair of SugarByHalf campaign and has authored the popular book A Fat Lot of Good. Peter is the founder of Defeat Diabetes, the doctor-led, evidence-based program to help send Type 2 diabetes into remission. You can find out all about the nutrition side of Peter's career at defeatdiabetes.com.au.

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