The FIRST Program: Fighting Insulin Resistance with Strength Training: Your Optimal Exercise Guide to Diabetes Prediabetes Metabolic Syndrome Cholesterol, a Science Based Approach

By William Shang

Written by an American College of Sports Medicine certified physician with additional board certification in pathology, this is an expert guide. Whether you have been diagnosed with prediabetes, diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome, or obesity, chances are your doctor has recommended exercise.Other books tout diet and weight loss.This book fills in the gap about exercise - and it's not what you might expect.The quantity and quality of muscle are instrumental to handling fats and carbohydrates in bringing down your risk.How you exercise is key to an eventual and sustained recovery.The latest scientific studies are summarized in an easy read, so you know:? How your body's muscle has come to mismanage sugars and fats.? How resistance exercise is an absolute necessity when it comes to sustained weight loss, and re-establishing a normal metabolism.? How high-intensity and low-intensity exercise use different sources of energy.? How to reprogram muscles to reverse insulin resistance.? Why older adults need to combine higher protein diets with exercise.? An exercise protocol modeled after successful research trials.Believe it or not, most physicians and other healthcare professionals can learn what's here, "commonly unknown, but astonishingly well-documented."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521370052
• ISBN13: 9781521370056
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.6" x 5.5"