Diabesity
Subtitle: The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic That Threatens America--And What We Must Do to Stop It
Publisher: Bantam
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780553803846
Subjects: Obesity; Health & Fitness; Consumer Health; Health/Fitness; United States; Diseases - Diabetes; Health & Fitness / General; General; Non-insulin-dependent diabetes
Description: An expert in the prevention and treatment of diabetes discusses the soaring epidemic of type 2 diabetes that is affecting American society, explaining how excess weight destroys the body's ability to process sugar properly and its dangerous implications, and offers an innovative series of changes on every level of society that can help alleviate the problem.