The Kick Diabetes Cookbook: An Action Plan and Recipes for Defeating Diabetes

Current scientific studies show that most people with type 2 diabetes can reverse the disease by eating a plant-based diet and making other healthy lifestyle changes. The Kick Diabetes Cookbook provides a blueprint for what to eat to defeat diabetes and offers 100 quick-and-easy recipes that are delicious and satisfying.
Diabetes authority Brenda Davis, RD, outlines an action plan for including more foods that help regulate blood glucose levels and avoiding foods that send those levels skyrocketing. She clarifies why not all carbohydrates promote diabetes, explains how plant-based protein reduces diabetes risk, and illustrates why a whole-foods, plant-based diet is naturally low in fat and sodium. Coauthor Vesanto Melina, MS, RD, provides nourishing fare that ranges from tempting comfort food to sinful-tasting treats. Information on composing nutritious meals and cooking beans and grains is included, along with a sample weeks menu. Each recipe is accompanied by a complete nutritional analysis.

Brenda Davis, registered dietitian, is a esteemed expert on plant-based nutrition and an internationally acclaimed speaker. She has worked as a public health nutritionist, clinical nutrition specialist, nutrition consultant and academic nutrition instructor. Brenda has been the lead nutritionist and health educator in the Diabetes Wellness Project in the Marshall Islands for a number of years.
Vesanto Melina, M.S., R.D., was trained at the University of Toronto and the University of London, England, and taught nutrition at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and Seattle's Bastyr University. She was the lead author on the joint position paper on vegetarian diets for Dietitians of Canada and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
They are co-authors of Becoming Vegan Comprehensive Edition, Becoming Vegan Express Edition, The Raw Food Diet Revolution, and Becoming Raw.