Diabesity A Doctor and Her Patients on the Front Lines of the Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic

Name: Diabesity A Doctor and Her Patients on the Front Lines of the Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic
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ISBN: 9780553383799

ISBN-10: 0553383795

ISBN-13: 9780553383799

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Authors: Francine R. Kaufman

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Experts now predict that more than one-third of American children born in 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime. Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the link between obesity and diabetes, this passionate, frightening–but ultimately hopeful–book points the way to a solution. To enter Dr. Francine Kaufman’s clinic is to see the future of America: a 220-pound twelve-year-old boy…a 267-pound thirteen-year-old girl…their concerned but equally overweight parents…the human faces and human suffering behind the epidemic of type 2 diabetes that threatens to overwhelm our health care system. Once a disease of the elderly, type 2 diabetes now strikes adults in their prime–and,…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English




The Devil Is Diabetes



A Tale of Two Children



Diabetes Descends on My Grandma Sadie



The March to Type 2 Diabetes



The Blood Sugar Balancing Act



A Life-Altering Diagnosis



Running on Empty



The Long Haul



The Evolution of Our Destruction



Designed for Feast or Famine



The Land of Plenty



Diabesity Around the World



Engines of Change



The New Normal



Who's Responsible?



Reading, Writing, and Diabesity



Nine to Five



The Healthcare Challenge


Epilogue: A Choice of Futures


Resources


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index