Diabetes Self-Defense® and Whole Control, LLC

Diabetes Self-Defense® is a product developed by Whole Control, LLC, a Denver, Colorado company. Our mission at Whole Control is Better Diabetes Control Through Diabetes Self-Defense®. If people with diabetes are to defend themselves effectively against diabetes, they need to address the whole picture, not just sugar. To find out more about us and our company, please visit our website at www.whole-control.com.

Our Scientific Advisory Board

• Boris Draznin, M.D., Ph.D. is the author of The Draznin Plan: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Diabetes. One of the world’s leading diabetes researchers with over thirty years of diabetes research, Dr. Drazin is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, as well as Director of Research at the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He has published over 120 scientific papers on diabetes and has been recognized by the American Diabetes Association as a leading researcher.
• Kevin Tong, M.D. is a practicing endocrinologist in Denver, CO. Dr. Tong is board-certified in Diabetes, Internal Medicine, Metabolism, and Endocrinology. Since graduating from the Tufts University School of Medicine in 1986, Dr. Tong has served as a staff internist/endocrinologist, an Assistant Professor of Medicine, and a consulting endocrinologist as well as being the author of multiple scientific papers.
• David Mendosa is a freelance journalist and consultant specializing in diabetes. After earning a B.A. with honors from the University of California, Riverside, and an M.A. from Claremont Graduate University, he became a Foreign Service officer. He worked for eleven years in Washington and four years in Africa for the U.S. Foreign Aid Program. Subsequently, he became a journalist, initially specializing in writing about small business. However, when he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in February 1994, he began to write entirely about the condition. His articles and columns have appeared in many of the major diabetes magazines and web sites. His own website, David Mendosa's Diabetes Directory (mendosa.com/diabetes) was one of the first and is now one of the largest with diabetes as its focus. It includes over 800 of his articles and web pages about diabetes. Every month he also publishes a free email newsletter called "Diabetes Update." Twice weekly he writes for his blog at http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/17/. He is a coauthor of The New Glucose Revolution: What Makes My Blood Glucose Go Up...And Down? (New York: Marlowe & Co., first edition in 2003, second American edition in July 2006, and other publishers in the U.K., Australia, and Taiwan). He is the author of Losing Weight with Your Diabetes Medication: How Byetta and Other Drugs Can Help You Lose More Weight than You Ever Thought Possible (New York: Persus Books, March 2008).
• Christine Fastnaught, Ph.D. is the Research Consultant for the National Barley Foods Council and Technical Manager for Phoenix Agri Research. Chris is one of the leading authorities on food barley in the U.S., having 25 years experience and a diverse knowledge of the grain production, unique varietal attributes, nutrient composition and nutritional benefits, as well as food processing characteristics. Chris is the author of a chapter on Barley Fiber and co-author of the petition to the FDA for a health claim Barley Soluble Fiber and Cholesterol Reduction.
• Greg Fox, Ph.D. is a research geneticist and plant breeder for WestBred LLC. Greg has worked for over 25 years on food barley, focusing on characteristics that benefit the cardiovascular and immune systems. Greg has developed barley varieties that contain nutritionally significant levels of high viscosity soluble fiber and patented processes that preserve the nutritional quality of this special barley grain. Greg is the author of Immunofiber, a book that explains the relationship between the cardiovascular system, the immune system and the impact of soluble fiber.
• Vlad Vuksan, Ph.D. is a leading diabetes researcher and is an Associate Professor, Departments of Endocrinology and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. In his research clinic at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto he conducts ground-breaking research on nutritional therapies for people with diabetes, and has published over 50 scientific papers on diabetic nutritional therapy. Dr. Vuksan is also Academic Chair, National Nutrition Committee, for the Canadian Diabetes Association.