Dr. Neal D. Barnard teaches how to establish a new style of eating which engages four food groups: vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes. This approach to managing diabetes is based on lowering cholesterol and blood pressure, shedding unwanted pounds, and improving how your body responds to insulin.

Food matters: Examines the deficiency in both our nutrition and the medical industry that thrives from the lack thereof. Also scrutinized are the agricultural practices that encourage a lack of nutritional value in the commercial foods available to us. Provides evidence that we have the power to prevent disease and heal ourselves of many common ailments through our diet and lifestyle choices, and provides simple suggestions for how to do so. A thousand...