This diet is nothing short of miraculous. This review is a bit long, but that is because we are so excited about the results of following The Blood Sugar Solution plan.My husband is not a diabetic, but has had high fasting blood sugar (in the pre-diabetic range) for the last 28 years. Now that he is approaching 60, he thought it was high time to get his sugar issue under control before it became full blown diabetes. It is worth noting that we are very healthy eaters, having been vegetarian for the past 20 years. He has had no weight problem and his overall health has always been great, hardly even getting a common cold. Yet, his blood sugar remained an issue in spite of his healthy lifestyle and he has been battling elevated cholesterol as well. But when you are young, thin and healthy overall, you tend to ignore these kinds of things. He decided it was time to stop ignoring it.He began over a year ago to try and get his blood sugar down. He first did the obvious and cut down on all sugar, refined foods, eliminated all soft drinks and removed anything with high fructose corn syrup. He bought a little test kit and kept close watch on his fasting blood sugar, but no change - it remained in the pre-diabetic range. With more research, he decided to add supplements that are supposed to lower blood sugar - such as cinnamon, Alpha Lipoic Acid, and others. He remained on those for several months, watched his blood sugar and still no change. Then in January his fasting blood sugar hit a new high of 132. After a year of doing everything he knew, eating whole organic foods, taking supplements, etc, he felt defeated and that there was no solution. We even wondered if his genetic makeup just meant that his sugar was meant to be on the high side. Again, he is thin and active and eats unbelievably healthy.That's when we bought several books on blood sugar. We have read 4 in all and this one is by far the most effective, most thorough, and easiest to follow. We both implemented the dietary guidelines immediately. I had 13 pounds to lose and I lost 3 the first week. But the real miracle was my husband’s blood sugar. In one week his fasting blood sugar went from 132 to 82! It dropped 50 points in one week! We were shocked and thrilled!For us the biggest change was eliminating grains. Being vegetarian, we ate lots of grains. We were always firm believers in whole grains being healthy for you and we made them the basis of our meals. We ate grains with every meal (breakfast, lunch and dinner) - never refined grains, always whole grains. Yes we ate veggies and fruits, but we could easily have been called starch-avores. After all, using grains as the basis of your vegetarian lifestyle has been the standard belief for years. So we eliminated grains and voila' - his blood sugar went into the normal range, first time in years. I lost weight immediately.The plan does include eating protein, which for most people means meat. For us we increased our protein by using tofu, nuts and seeds. Therefore this program works for vegetarian and non-vegetarians alike.Now after 3 months of eating this way, my husbands blood sugar has never again gone back up into the pre-diabetic range, his cholesterol came down to 180 (100 points less than previously) and his triglycerides made the most improvement having reached a high a few years back of 500 and after this diet they were 88. I have lost 9 pounds so far (only 4 more to go to be where I want to be) and my cholesterol and triglycerides have also come down in the healthy range (both have been elevated for 30 years in spite of trying everything I knew). We could not be more ecstatic about the results of following the directions of this book – it should be called the High Blood Sugar, Cholesterol and Triglycerides Solution.We are now experimenting with reintroducing grains back into our diets and we are learning just how much we can and cannot eat before seeing negative results. He has been able to eat small amounts of grains – only not daily, it has to be only a few times a week and never eaten in consecutive meals. The same goes for me or I will gain weight.We never realized how big of a negative too much grain consumption was. It took work and lots of adjustment, but the benefits are well worth it. We are feeling better than ever. The only draw back is that when you eliminate grain you greatly reduce your fiber intake. This has been a real challenge for us and we now have to take fiber supplementation daily.This book has proven to us that there is no reason to suffer from diabetes or to take any prescription medication for it, as well as for high blood lipids. They are curable. It is diet that causes it, so it is diet that reverses it. Why would anyone want to take a drug if it was unnecessary?! Some people do not like that Dr. Hyman has his own website, but this is silly as you do not need to buy anything from him to get healthy. The book is all you need, along with the will to follow it. Many people gave the book bad reviews but never followed the plan and in some cases never even read the book. Others didn’t like the idea of spending extra money on supplements. You can follow the plan without any supplements and get all of the benefits. It is up to each person whether they want to be well or just find an excuse to not change anything.There is a wealth of information in this book above and beyond just blood sugar. It is filled with information on our food system and issues that affect each and every one of us. I would put this book on the MUST READ list!