Diabetes Rising

Summary

Now in paperback-the controversial expose of the causes and treatments of diabetes, revised and updated. "Diabetes Risingtakes on the fastest-growing disease in history with a take-no-prisonerrs"s attitude. Not willing to live with the enemy, Dan Hurley wants to kill it in its crib."-Chris Matthews, Host of MSNBCrs"s Hardball with Chris Matthews InDiabetes Rising, investigative journalist Dan Hurley chronicles the modern diabetes epidemic: how the disease has grown so dramatically, why the American Diabetes Association focuses its attention on just a small handful of available treatments, and why the research being done today does not look beyond accepted types of treatments. With ground-breaking research and compelling stories told through an investigative, historical, and narrative lens,Diabetes Risingoffers riveting insight into the struggle between a persistent malady and the medical communityrs"s ongoing search for answers. Just as Eric Schlosserrs"sFast Food Nationuncovered the sordid details leading to an epidemic of obesity, Dan Hurley uncovers the hidden truths about diabetes, including what is being researched and what is not.

Author Biography

Dan Hurley is a science writer and journalist who regularly contributes to The New York Times Science Times. He also writes for numerous medical newspapers, including Neurology Today (the newspaper of the American Academy of Neurology), Gastroenterology and Endoscopy News, Pharmacy Practice News, General Surgery News, and others. He has been senior writer at the Medical Tribune and contributing editor to Psychology Today, where his article on the violent mentally ill won the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ award for investigative journalism in 1995. He is the former Vice President of the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

He is also the author of Natural Causes: Death, Lies, and Politics in America's Vitamin and Herbal Supplement Industry and The 60-Second Novelist: What 22,613 People Taught Me About Life.

Foreword	p. ix
Prologue	p. xiii
The Rising
Pissing Evil	p. 3
From Ancient Times to the Discovery of Insulin
Two Steps Back	p. 23
Deaths Continue Rising Despite Insulin and Pills: 1923-1975
Try Harder	p. 43
The Rise of Tight Control for Type 1: 1975 to the Present Day
The Sweetest Place on Earth	p. 65
Type 2 Reaches Unimagined Heights: 1984 to the Present Day
The Reasons
The Accelerator Hypothesis	p. 91
Weight Gain as the Missing Link Between Type 1 and Type 2
The Cow's Milk Hypothesis	p. 109
Does Baby Formula in the First Months of Life Set off an Immune Attack?
The POP Hypothesis	p. 127
The Risks of Persistent Organic Pollutants
The Sunshine Hypothesis	p. 145
How Too Little Sun, and Too Little Vitamin D, Might Raise Diabetes Risk
The Hygiene Hypothesis	p. 161
The Icky Benefits of Dirt, Germs, and Worms
The Remedies
The Computer Cure	p. 181
The Quest for an Artificial Pancreas
The Surgical Cure	p. 207
Can Bariatric Surgery Stop Type 2 in Its Tracks?
The Biological Cure	p. 229
The Search for a Pill that Cures Type 1, Once and for All
The Public Health Cure	p. 245
Prevention Is the Ultimate Key to Ending the Diabetes Pandemic
Conclusion	p. 263
Afterword to the Revised Edition	p. 267
Acknowledgments	p. 273
Endnotes	p. 277
Index	p. 307
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