| Title | : | How Not to Get Sick: A Cookbook and Guide to Prevent and Reverse Insulin Resistance, Lose Weight, and Fight Chronic Disease |
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| ISBN | : | 1637744544 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781637744543 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 |
| Publication | : | Published July 9, 2024 |
With his breakout book Why We Get Sick, Benjamin Bikman helped thousands of people to understand insulin resistance: what it is, why it happens, how it affects nearly every system in our bodies.
Now, in this companion guide featuring 70 low-carb and keto-friendly recipes, Bikman has teamed up with the fitness expert and recipe developer Diana Keuilian to help the nearly 9 in 10 American adults affected with insulin resistance. Together, they translate the latest research into actionable, easy-to-follow steps. You can make dramatic improvements in your insulin sensitivity, resist chronic illness, attain a healthy weight, and improve your energy.
In part one, learn how to assess your health with regards to insulin resistance and understand the science. In part two, discover a three-pronged approach to reversing insulin resistance or maintaining insulin sensitivity. And in part three, get the tools to put the plan into action, with exercise, meal plans for intermittent fasting, and healthful recipes that the whole family will love, including:
• BBQ Pulled Pork Sliders
• Mediterranean Turkey Bowls
• Easy Chicken Enchilada Casserole
• Meatzza Pizza
• Crispy Sweet Mongolian Beef
• Adobo Braised Mushroom Tacos
• Sizzling Crab Cakes
• Vegetarian White Garlic Lasagna
• Cheesy Garlic Breadsticks
• Frosted Fudge Brownies
• Iced Apple Cinnamon Muffins
Illustrated with stunning full-color photography and chock-full of knowledge and encouragement, How Not to Get Sick is an essential resource for healthy living.
How Not to Get Sick: A Cookbook and Guide to Prevent and Reverse Insulin Resistance, Lose Weight, and Fight Chronic Disease Reviews
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How Not to Get Sick is a brand-new book covering a scientistic approach to getting better health. Insulin resistance is something most of us are affect by. Only about 12% of people are in the healthy range in all metrics. The metrics included was waist circumference, fasting blood glucose, blood pressure, and two blood lipid measurements. In the book, they explored how to improve people’s health. They looked at the benefits to fasting and when you should fast. They explained how to prioritize protein, eating fats, and carbs and what kind to eat. They looked at movement and how much we should be moving regularly. The included a few exercises and pictures explaining the moves. The book covered sleep and how critical it is to sleep and how a lack of just two days can spike your insulin levels. The book contains a few different reverse meal plans. There is even a recipe section. Some of these included, spiced butter chicken, chicken alfredo spaghetti bake, grilled Sunday steak, creamy garlic shrimp, peanut butter chocolate layered mousse, sweet and salty dessert bark, strawberry cheesecake smoothie, and much more.
I would recommend this awesome book on tips and techniques to combat insulin and becoming insulin resistance. The book is very insightful on learning how to control our glucose. I immensely liked the healthy version of new favorites recipes and they seem like they will assist you in your overall health. It was very shocking to read how many of us are failing in the metrics and I’m including myself. This is very well researched and if you follow along and put in work and effort you can being to see positive changes. -
omg this was so interesting to learn about.
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Thank you to NetGalley and BenBella books for this E-ARC.
It is so extremely interesting how we work out, do our health care routine, take care of our outside body. But we really don’t know that much about what we eat.
Growing up in Sweden and then moving to America was weird. The things that are allowed to be in American food versus what is banned in most other countries is wild.
I have just changed my eating habits to being vegan. There was mostly meat recipes in this book but I will be trying them without the meat for sure. -
Like Bikman‘s first book, this basically all boils down to insulin levels for him and it’s mostly a low-carb and keto book with some stuff thrown in about exercise and sleep and such. It felt very light to me. There was nothing I didn’t already know (though I read a lot of health and nutrition books) and he focuses solely on insulin levels.
It’s annoying for me to have just finished a book about gut health and how important various prebiotic and postbiotic foods are, and then there’s no word about these things here and it’s totally different foods that are dangerous or vital. This is true for all of these books on any other topic too — how important it is to eat at least 30 different plant foods a week for gut diversity according to three other books I’ve read recently and neither author said a word about these.
Anyway, this is more of his first book and then a short cookbook section with decadent low carb recipes featuring lots of meat and dairy and keto sweeteners. There are photos and nutritional information for those recipes.
I read a temporary digital copy of this book for review. -
Great follow up on the first book, Why We Get Sick. Includes just enough of the detailed scientific theory to understand the changes and recommendations they give, while also giving very concrete suggestions. Also the recipes look very appetizing and not nearly as intimidating as many of the health-conscious recipe books I’ve encountered.
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This book had a lot of information, ideals, and health wellness and I was expecting it to be more of a how to cookbook. There were some recipes and all finally near the end but it was not what I was expecting. It was an ok read for me, decent but not awesome.
Thanks to edelweiss for the arc! -
Interesting topics covered in this book. Lots of ideas about how to eat and the section with exercises was nice. Recipes were nice but doubt I’d make any.
