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Rethinking diabetes : what science reveals about diet, insulin, and successful treatments / Gary Taubes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taubes, Gary, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diabetes--History.
- Diabetes.
- Diabetes--Research.
- Diet.
- Nutrition.
- diet.
- Genre:
- Informational works.
- History
- Self-help publications.
- Physical Description:
- 495 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- What science reveals about diet, insulin, and successful treatments
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
- Summary:
- "An eye-opening, comprehensive history of diabetes research and treatment, by award-winning journalist and the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat"-- 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.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [435]-470) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Taubes, Gary. Rethinking diabetes.
- ISBN:
- 9780525520085
- 0525520082
- OCLC:
- 1391449431
- Publisher Number:
- 99996237469
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