ABOUT THE BOOK
Healthy food can turn you around. Food is medicine, and by eating lean, nutritional food full of colour and stimulating tastes you can make yourself healthier, slimmer, and happier too. This book guides you through a 4-week diet that will vitalize anyone wanting to live a healthy, happy life. The diet is for everyone, but picks out three groups in particular. As such, it's pure medicine if you've got type 2 diabetes or know there's a risk you'll develop it, if you're overweight, or if your cholesterol numbers are too high. The book gives you guidelines and recipes that work effectively against these three problems.

We know this because the diet laid out in detail here provided the fulcrum of two studies, one American and one Danish. The American study involved 100 individuals being divided into two groups. One group received the green diet we are now recommending to you. The other was given the diet normally recommended by doctors to people suffering from type 2 diabetes. Afterwards, it was clear that the group on the green diet had lost weight and enhanced their cholesterol and blood sugar numbers more than the second group.

We tested the diet again in Denmark. Nine out of ten participants went through the four weeks successfully and achieved the same encouraging results as the Americans. They came out healthier, lighter and happier in ways that were apparent not only to themselves but also to those around them. A number of those taking part were able to cut down on their use of medicine. Some were able to come off it altogether. Moreover, old eating habits were gone. Those who took part no longer had the same pangs for meat, cheese, fat and sugar, but a desire for more of the healthy food they could feel was doing them good.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Mikael Bitsch, consultant physician and associate professor. Søren Lange, head chef and nutritional consultant. Catharina Rosendal, project leader. Kirsten Skaarup, publishing editor and food journalist.

THE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WITH DIABETE S 2:

Sweden: 484.400
Norway: 159.300
Finland: 319.800
Germany: 749.430

see also: http://www.diabetesatlas.org/map

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