Diabetes Rising : How a Rare Disease Became a Modern Pandemic, and What to Do about It

by Dan Hurley

• ISBN13: 9781607144588
• ISBN10: 1607144581
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-05
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing

Summary

Written by award-winning investigative journalist Dan Hurley,Diabetes Risingis a gripping expose of the quest for a cure for the disease that afflicts hundreds of millions of people around the world. Hurley chronicles today's diabetes epidemichow 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 doesn't look beyond accepted types of treatments. Just as Eric Schlosser'sFast Food Nationuncovered the sordid details leading to an epidemic of obesity, Dan Hurley uncovers the hidden truths of what is being researchedand even more importantly, what is not.Diabetes Risingexplores both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, one of the leading causes of deaths in the United States. With ground-breaking research and compelling stories seen through an investigative, historical, and narrative lens,Diabetes Risingcouples big-picture insight with intimate reporting. The book yields riveting insight into the struggle between the pervasive malady and the medical community's ongoing search for answers. Informed but not dominated by the author's own experience as a Type 1 diabetic,Diabetes Risinggrants exclusive access to new studies, innovative treatments, and determined patients. Hurley's sharp, entertaining, and provocative read will change how readers understand diabetes, and the cultures, conditions, and medical climates in which it thrives.

Table of Contents

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
Acknowledgments	p. 267
Endnotes	p. 271
Index	p. 301
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