Last year the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston published its diet and exercise guidelines for overweight people with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes [PDF file]. This “Clinical Nutrition Guideline For Overweight and Obese Adults With Type 2 Diabetes, Prediabetes or at High Risk for Developing Type 2 Diabetes” seems to be to be the soundest and most up-to-date of any such recommendations.

Dr. Colberg’s 7 Step book, which I reviewed above, brought this breakthrough in American acceptance of the glycemic index to my attention. And now the Joslin clinic has come out with the second edition of its Joslin Guide to Diabetes, which also endorses the glycemic index.

The Joslin Guide has its roots in Joslin clinic founder Dr. Elliott P. Joslin’s Diabetes Manual. The first of 12 editions appeared between 1918 and the 1970s, when it evolved into the Joslin Guide.

This is a first-rate reference book, but not something that you will want to read straight through. It’s so packed full of information that it’s not a book that you can read for pleasure.

By Richard S. Beaser, M.D., and Amy P. Campbell, The Joslin Guide to Diabetes is a 431-page trade paperback listed at $16.95. It is a Fireside Book published by Simon & Schuster on November 1. The ISBN is # 0-7432-5784-7.

[As of 07Jan2006, this book is available via Amazon for varying prices.]