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Rethinking diabetes : what science reveals about diet, insulin, and successful treatments / Gary Taubes.

Van Pelt Library RC660 .T387 2024
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Taubes, Gary, author.
Contributor:
Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
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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