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title: "The FIRST Program: Fighting Insulin Resistance with Strength Training: Your Optimal Exercise Guide to Diabetes Prediabetes Metabolic Syndrome Cholesterol, a Science Based Approach"
brand: "william shang m.d."
price: "$701"
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# The FIRST Program: Fighting Insulin Resistance with Strength Training: Your Optimal Exercise Guide to Diabetes Prediabetes Metabolic Syndrome Cholesterol, a Science Based Approach

**Brand:** william shang m.d.
**Price:** $701
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- **What is this?** 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 m.d.
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## Customer Reviews

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    Finally a book that tells us our health is in our hands
  

*by S***Z on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 18, 2019*

I have battled belly fat the visceral kind that is so damaging to health and impossible to kill for as long as I can remember, male 70 years old. I have a large bookcase full of health "help" books on this subject and useless. I exercise religiously without meaningful weight loss that soon returns. No matter what I did or eat my pre-diabetes lab numbers as well as waistline kept inching up.I have not had Dr  Shangs' book long and will be finishing in the next few days. I slowly started weight resistance exercising following his methodology and to my surprise not only do I feel better, old tingling nerve issues in one arm I put up with for many years seem to be gone. Same for knee osteoarthritis pain I've had for at least six years not bothering me and without cortisone injections.What Dr Shang has done is SHINE A LIGHT on the importance of dutifully exercising our Type 2 skeletal muscle fibers. He gives awesome detailed explanation on how that phenomenon works.  He covers so many important topics related to good health and particularly pre and type 2 diabetes that it's mind blowing. I have never seen so much detailed information explained in such a clear and easy to understand fashion before. His analogies, charts and graphs are very helpful. His advice is refreshing. My understanding of what is going on inside me has increased tenfold. This is what reading this book has accomplished.Other book reviewers have pointed out that the book needs better editing, I agree but only in the very beginning. After the first chapter or so it reads just fine. Not sure why that is but to me the value of his advice and recommendations is higher than I have seen in other books that just briefly mention what is common knowledge  ( fluff ).  This book is the opposite, loaded with information, data and advice I have not run across to date.Dr Shang by training knows what is going on inside us. His years as a pathologist and autopsy examiner has given him  the opportunity to see what many of us look like inside with the passing of time. He is a director of laboratory at Cornell University, previously US Air Force flight surgeon and certified by the American College of Sports Medicine and American Board of Pathology. All told I am impressed with this guy and trust his no nonsense medical judgement.I will happily return to this book review and report on my progress using Dr Shangs' medical prescription that according to him simple states : "Do resistance strength training". I have tried just about everything else with no loss of waist size, body weight and rising A1C numbers. What do I have to lose? .... $12 !  Being physically strong in good heath as I age is priceless.Aside from sales of this book going to Dr Shang and publishers, only people making real money due to Dr Shang are the dumbbell, inflatable fitness ball and workout bench manufacturers. The sample exercises are guidelines recommended by fitness trainer people. There is no shortage of internet and books with details on weight training. To use this as reason to drop rating is unfair as the information is out there. You do not buy this book to get exercise details !  The real value of this book is Dr Shangs' experience, medical training and willingness to make the reader aware of the fact that when it comes to good general health, pre-diabetes prevention/rolling back existing, we have an organ (skeletal muscle) that to use his term, is "malleable". This means we have the power to be healthy if we choose to act.I highly recommend this book.  Will post again with progress reports.

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    Great Material But Kindle Version Not Updated
  

*by M***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 23, 2023*

The material itself is great for any diabetic to read.The problem to be aware of is the kindle version is the old 2017 version.It does not included the 2020 and 2021 updates.

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    Good content, poor writing, internet links broken
  

*by C***Z on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 13, 2023*

Helpful, sensible info.  Couldn’t access the internet URL provided…can anyone share those materials?

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