The Prediabetes Action Plan review
A physician-written guide to eating, moving and tracking your way out of the prediabetes range.
By the RJ Editorial Team. Sales page checked 2026-09-23. Last updated 2026-09-23.
Is it worth it?
You got the bloodwork back and there's a number sitting slightly out of range. Maybe an A1C that's drifted from 5.4 to 5.9. Your doctor said something about diet and exercise, and that was roughly the whole conversation. Now you're at home googling, somewhere between mildly worried and annoyed that nobody told you what to actually do on Monday morning. That gap is what this fills. It's a written guide, about the price of a takeaway, by a physician, and its core is the Diabetes Plate Method, the same approach the ADA and CDC publish. You look at your plate, half non-starchy veg, a quarter protein, a quarter carbs, and you don't count anything. The advice underneath (move regularly, sleep, aim for a modest 5 to 7 percent weight loss) is mainstream and genuinely well supported. So the honest framing: you're not buying secret information. You're buying it organised, explained, and in one place instead of forty browser tabs of contradictory nonsense. For a lot of people that's the difference between knowing and doing. The page shows a glucose chart labelled illustrative, and it says so plainly, which is more candour than most. It also says work with your physician. Take that literally. This is a companion to your doctor, not a substitute, and it isn't a treatment for diagnosed type 2 diabetes.
Pros
- Written by a board-certified physician, and says so
- Built on mainstream ADA and CDC guidance, not a fad
- Plate method means no calorie counting or food scales
- One-off price, no subscription, instant to read
Cons
- The information is largely free elsewhere, you're paying for organisation
- Page doesn't say page count, format (PDF or otherwise), or refund terms
- Reading it changes nothing on its own, the habits take months
What you get
A digital guide (read on phone, tablet or computer) written by Dr Yaw A. Boateng, MD, PhD, FACP. It explains insulin resistance in plain language, walks you through the ADA/CDC Diabetes Plate Method so you build meals without counting calories, covers food-first ways to improve insulin sensitivity, and flags which lab trends and symptoms are worth raising with your doctor.
Before you buy
- Check the refund window and whether it's a PDF you can keep
- Have your actual recent A1C and fasting glucose numbers to hand
- If you're on metformin or already diagnosed, ask your doctor first, this is aimed at the prediabetes range
Who it suits
Someone recently flagged as prediabetic who wants a clear, doctor-written starting point and will actually follow through.
