Diabetes rising
Subtitle: why a rare disease became a pandemic, and how startling new strategies can reverse it, and save your life
By: by Dan Hurley ; with a foreword by Zachary Bloomgarden.
Publisher: Kaplan Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781607144588
Subjects: Diabetes -- Epidemiology; Diabetes -- Etiology; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 -- epidemiology -- United States; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 -- epidemiology -- United States; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 -- history -- United States; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 -- prevention & control -- United States; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 -- history -- United States; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 -- prevention & control -- United States; Risk Factors -- United States
Description: "With gripping stories, colorful characters, and a wry sense of humor, Dan Hurley takes you to the wealthiest town in Massachusetts, where an outbreak of type 1 diabetes among children has parents up in arms. He travels to Logan County, West Virginia, with the highest rate of type 2 diabetes in the United States (and where the local Wal-Mart sells more snack cakes than any other Wal-Mart in the world). A type 1 diabetic himself since the age of 18, Hurley even participates in an extraordinary clinical trial of an artificial pancreas."--Cover page 2 & 3.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pissing evil : from ancient times to the discovery of insulin; title: Two steps back : deaths continue rising despite insulin and pills, 1923-1975; title: Try harder : the rise of tight control for type 1, 1975-present day; title: The sweetest place on earth : type 2 reaches unimagined heights, 1984-present day; title: The accelerator hypothesis : weight gain as the missing link, between type 1 and type 2; title: The cow's milk hypothesis : does baby formula in the first months of life set off an immune attack?; title: The pop hypothesis : the risks of persistent organic pollutants; title: The sunshine hypothesis : how too little sun, and too little vitamin D, might raise diabetes risk; title: The hygiene hypothesis : the icky benefits of dirt, germs and worms; title: The computer cure : the quest for an artificial pancreas; title: The surgical cure : can bariatric surgery stop type 2 in its tracks?; title: The biological cure : the search for a pill that cures type 1, once and for all; title: The public health cure : prevention is the ultimate key to ending the diabetes pandemic.