Diabetes Rising

by Hurley, Dan

• ISBN13: 9781410428226
• ISBN10: 1410428222
• Edition: Large
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-21
• Publisher: Thorndike Pr

Summary

Nearly 90 years after the discovery of insulin, with an estimated $ 116 billion spent annually on treatment of diabetes in the United States, why is it the one major cause of death that's been relentlessly rising for a century? Diabetes Rising investigates why the nearly two dozen medications approved for type-2 (adult-onset) diabetes and the high-tech treatments for type-1 (juvenile-onset) diabetes are failing to slow this modern pandemic, and profiles promising new approaches toward prevention, treatment and cure of the disease. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 11
Prologue	p. 15
The Rising	p. 35
Pissing Evil	p. 37
From Ancient Times to the Discovery of insulin
Two Steps Back	p. 69
Deaths Continue Rising Despite Insulin and Pills: 1923-1975
Try Harder	p. 103
The Rise of Tight Control for Type 1: 1975 to the Present Day
The Sweetest Place on Earth	p. 138
Type 2 Reaches Unimagined Heights: 1984 to the Present Day
The Reasons	p. 175
The Accelerator Hypothesis	p. 177
Weight Gain as the Missing Link between Type 1 and Type 2
The Cow's Milk Hypothesis	p. 205
Does Baby Formula in the First Months of Life Set off an Immune Attack?
The POP Hypothesis	p. 233
The Risks of Persistent Organic Pollutants
The Sunshine Hypothesis	p. 263
How Too Little Sun, and Too Little Vitamin D, Might Raise Diabetes Risk
The Hygiene Hypothesis	p. 287
The Icky Benefits of Dirt, Germs, and Worms
The Remedies	p. 317
The Computer Cure	p. 319
The Quest for an Artificial Pancreas
The Surgical Cure	p. 361
Can Bariatric Surgery Stop Type 2 in Its Tracks?
The Biological Cure	p. 396
The Search for a Pill that Cures Type 1, Once and for All
The Public Health Cure	p. 422
Prevention Is the Ultimate Key to Ending the Diabetes Pandemic
Conclusion	p. 451
Acknowledgments	p. 457
Endnotes	p. 461
Index	p. 527
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