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Published on: 3/13/2008
Last Visited: 7/27/2008
Q&A with Stuart A. Seale, M.D. (Diabetes Missionary)
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Stuart A. Seale, M.D., board-certified family physician and co-author of The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle, has helped thousands of patients over the past quarter century.
While managing a thriving solo, family practice in Springfield, Missouri for 21 years, he treated an increasing number of patients who suffered from lifestyle-related diseases.This moved him to learn more about treating the cause of these conditions, not just how to control the symptoms, as is the case with standard medical treatments.
He now serves as the medical director for Ardmore Institute of Health, and is the medical director, physician, and educator for Lifestyle Center of America's Stopping Diabetes ProgramTM in Sedona, Arizona.He conducts an advanced wellness and healthy lifestyle workshop called The Well ExperienceTM.Dr. Seale also maintains a private, mobile medical practice, Room Calls Sedona.
Dr. Seale educates and motivates patients into improved health by treating the underlying cause of their diseases - an unhealthy lifestyle.He has expertise in nutrition, exercise physiology, and chronic disease prevention and reversal via lifestyle modification.
Dr. Seale graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1979 and completed a family practice residency at the University of Missouri in 1983.Since that time he has continuously maintained certification by the American Board of Family Practice, most recently re-certifying in 2007.He has also received the 3-year AMA Physician Recognition Award eight times, most recently in 2007.
The Lincoln, Nebraska native, age 53, spent most of his youth in Brainerd, Minnesota.Dr. Seale and his wife now reside in Sedona, Arizona.He has three adult children.
Name: Stuart A. Seale, M.D.
Birthday: June 7, 1954
Location: Lincoln, NE
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Dr. Seale: My initial foray into the area of lifestyle medicine (the use of changing lifestyle behaviors as a means of treating chronic disease) was much more general in focus, and not so diabetes oriented.
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Dr. Seale: There are more than 21 million people with diabetes in the United States—7 percent of the population.
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Dr. Seale: Diabetes is an abnormality of how the body manages glucose, otherwise known as blood sugar.
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Dr. Seale: The three pillars of this lifestyle approach to the miracle are a plant-based diet, intermittent training, and cognitive behavior therapy.
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Dr. Seale: Most attempts to control and reverse diabetes fail because most - even those from the venerable diabetes research and advocacy-based institutions like the American Diabetes Association - give only lip service to the critical lifestyle factors that are at the cause of the type-2 diabetes disease process.
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Dr. Seale: Other individuals may recommend a plant-based diet just as we do, based on solid scientific evidence.
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Dr. Seale: While eating refined carbohydrates and sugars is not part of a healthy nutritional program, it is not the eating of these foods on the occasional basis that causes diabetes.
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Dr. Seale: Quite simply, here they are:
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Dr. Seale: When patients follow recommendations such as we have given in "The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle", I frequently will see them have blood sugars that are under control without the need for medication, when previously their blood sugars were not controlled even with medication.
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Dr. Seale: I don't have difficulty staying away from foods that are truly unhealthy, and I really don't crave them or want to eat them.
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Dr. Seale: A big bowl of stir-fried vegetables (as many varieties as possible) with buckwheat noodles and a spray or two of liquid aminos, with perhaps a side of black beans.A close runner-up is two slices of whole wheat toast (homemade, from coarse ground flour) covered with a cup of bean chili and steamed Swiss chard.
Diet Detective: What's your favorite "junk food?"If you even eat any?
Dr. Seale: It is too easy to snack on tortilla chips if they are accessible - so, it's best if I don't keep them in my home environment and limit them to when I go to a Mexican restaurant to eat.
Diet Detective: Do you have time to exercise?What do you do?Also, how important is exercise in fighting off diabetes?
Dr. Seale: No one really has time - it is what we make time for.
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Dr. Seale: Running, mountain biking, and hiking all serve to reduce my stress and get me centered.
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Dr. Seale: Beans - without question.Any variety is good, but black beans, kidney beans, and small red beans are the best because they are the highest in antioxidants and fiber.
Diet Detective: What do you consider the world's most perfect food?
Dr. Seale: This isn't meant as an attempt to duck the question, because if I thought there was a most perfect food, I would give it as my answer.
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Dr. Seale: This is going to sound really odd, because it is not a person per se, but rather a group of individuals; and also they are totally unknown to me personally.
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Dr. Seale: "Choices - Quick and Healthy Cooking"; "More Choices - for a Healthy and Low-Fat You" - both by Cheryl Thomas Peters.
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Dr. Seale: I actually prefer to not use recipes.
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Dr. Seale: Closing my traditional family practice office that had several thousand active patients, and that took me over 21 years to build, in order to become a full-time lifestyle physician at the age of 51.
Diet Detective: What was your worst summer job?
Dr. Seale: I really haven't had any job I didn't enjoy most of the time.
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Dr. Seale: Believe it or not, I wanted to be a garbage man!