Contents

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Welcome

Dedication

How to Use This Book

Join the Blood Sugar Solution Community Today

Do You Have Diabesity?

Introduction: Diabesity: What You Don’t Know May Kill You

Part I

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Understanding The Modern Plague

1. A Hidden Epidemic: The United States of Diabetes

2. The Real Causes of Diabesity

3. Seven Myths About Obesity and Diabetes That Keep Us Sick

4. Food Addiction: Fixing Your Brain Chemistry

5. How Big Food, Big Farming, and Big Pharma Are Killing Us

6. Functional Medicine: A New Approach to Reverse This Epidemic

Part II

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The Seven Steps To Treating Diabesity

7. Understanding the Seven Steps

8. Step 1: Boost Your Nutrition

9. Step 2: Regulate Your Hormones

10. Step 3: Reduce Inflammation

11. Step 4: Improve Your Digestion

12. Step 5: Maximize Detoxification

13. Step 6: Enhance Energy Metabolism

14. Step 7: Soothe Your Mind

Part III

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The Blood Sugar Solution: Preparation

15. Start the Journey

16. Harness the Power of Community

17. Take a Measure of Yourself

Part IV

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The Six-Week Action Plan

18. Ready. Set. Take Action!

19. Week 1: Eat Your Medicine: Nutrition Basics

20. Week 2: Optimize Metabolism with Nutritional Supplements

21. Week 3: Relax Your Mind, Heal Your Body

22. Week 4: Fun, Smart Exercise

23. Week 5: Live Clean and Green

24. Week 6: Personalize the Program

25. The Blood Sugar Solution: Weekly Overview

26. Get Healthy for Life

Part V

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Take Back Our Health

27. Get Healthy Together: Creating a Social Movement

Conclusion: Reversing the Diabesity Epidemic

Part VI

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The Blood Sugar Solution Meal Plan and Recipes

28. Your Six-Week Meal Plan

29. Recipes and Shopping Lists

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Mark Hyman, MD

Praise

Notes

Resources