Title:
Rethinking diabetes : what science reveals about diet, insulin, and successful treatments
Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2024
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
©2024
Physical Description:
495 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780525520085
Abstract:
"An eye-opening, comprehensive history of diabetes research and treatment, by the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat and award-winning journalist"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The nature of medical knowledge -- The early history -- Diabetes in retrospect -- The fear of fat -- Insulin -- Rise of the carbohydrate-rich diet -- Good science/bad science, Part I -- Good science/bad science, Part II -- Good science/bad science, Part III -- The end of carbohydrate restriction -- Diabetes and heart disease -- What you see is all there is -- Low blood sugar -- High-fat diets -- Very-low-carbohydrate diets -- Epilogue: The conflicts of evidence-based medicine.
Language:
English
