Diabetes is the fastest-growing disease in most countries around the world, including Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Since 2000, diabetes diagnoses have tripled in Australia. But there is good news: most cases of Type 2 Diabetes are preventable and many diagnoses are reversible.

Food As Medicine: Cooking to Prevent and Treat Diabetes by Dr Sue Radd sets out the pattern of cooking and eating that can make all the difference for diabetes risks. This cookbook was award “Best in the World” in the category for cookbooks by health professions at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in June 2025.

A Taste of Food As Medicine for Diabetes excerpts some of the key health and nutritional information from Dr Radd’s award-winning cookbook in a sampler booklet for sharing good health in your community. Full-colour throughout, this sharing resource features 13 sample recipes from the award-winning cookbooks Food As Medicine and Food As Medicine–Diabetes.

Share them with friends and neighbours, use them as part of your church’s health and other outreach programs, use it as the basis of a specific diabetes community health program or cooking demonstration, share them with leaders and health professionals in your community.

Ten ways to share this book in your community:

1. Simply give it to friends, family, neighbours and other community members.
2. Share copies with health leaders in your community.
3. Leave copies in community places, particularly health settings, with permission.
4. Send copies to people who have attended health programs your church has run.
5. Plan a cooking demonstration or series using the simple recipes in the booklet.
6. Have copies available for visitors at any church event
7. Offer of free giveaway on church and local church websites.
8. Gifts for community members on your contact list.
9. Give a free copy to all families at your local Adventist school.
10. Share in usual literature-sharing channels: literature stands, letterboxing and doorknocking.