POPULAR MEDICINE. In the groundbreaking The Glycemic-Load Diabetes Solution, Dr. Rob Thompson, a preventive cardiologist and champion of glycemic-load science, brings you an easy-to-follow, low-starch diet-and-exercise program that promises to stabilize blood sugar in just seven days. Dr. Thompson has changed the way we think about treating diabetes--and kept his own under control for ten yearswith his focus on starch, not sugar, as the number-one cause behind this chronic condition.