THE CURE: The REALISTIC Lifestyle Choice for Avoiding Diabetes for Life and Really, Truly Losing Weight without Trying

One third of Americans are prediabetic. Most will eventually become diabetic by following the ADA's guidance, which will slow but not stop progression of the disease.

THE CURE: THE REALISTIC LIFESTYLE CHOICE FOR AVOIDING DIABETES FOR LIFE AND REALLY, TRULY LOSING WEIGHT WITHOUT TRYING is a breakthrough lifestyle guide with tasty do-able recipes aimed at the 35 percent of Americans who have prediabetes. It takes the medical community to task and blows standard diabetes guidance out of the water, setting the reader instead on a realistic course that can keep them from becoming diabetic, rather than just delaying the onset. We, the authors, are sisters with distinctive points of view and sometimes contrary perspectives who are trying to achieve the same goal: keeping diabetes at bay for the rest of our lives.

The ADA (and as a result, most members of the medical community) assume those with prediabetes don't have the fortitude to give up their bad eating habits. They focus on managing - rather than curing - the situation by slowing the progression of the disease rather than extracting the person with prediabetes from the crosshairs of the freight train headed their way. We think it's time those with prediabetes be given the truth rather than sugar-coating. Whole grains are not "better" carbs. Fruits have sugar. Don't eat more whole grains and fruits.

One third of Americans are ticking time bombs. They - we - have "prediabetes," which means that if they don't make serious changes, they're going to have full-blown diabetes within the next five years or so. In a lot of ways, those lifestyle changes seem too daunting to contemplate. Most prediabetics will therefore remain on a path of "wait and see," even though once they've crossed the threshold to full-blown diabetes there's no going back.

But what if there were a way to derail the majority of those on that path and stop diabetes before it starts?

THE CURE provides lifestyle guidance and recipes that are manageable and delicious for a long-term approach designed to keep the prediabetic from becoming diabetic by retaining beta cell function and halting the burnout.