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A Doctor and Her Patients on the Front Lines of the Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic
Bantam
January 2006
336 pages
ISBN: 0553383795
Paperback (reprint)
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Experts now predict that more than one-third of American
children born in 2000 will develop diabetes in their
lifetime. Written by one of the world’s leading authorities
on the link between obesity and diabetes, this passionate,
frightening–but ultimately hopeful–book points the way to a
solution. To enter Dr. Francine Kaufman’s clinic is to see the future
of America: a 220-pound twelve-year-old boy…a 267-pound
thirteen-year-old girl…their concerned but equally
overweight parents…the human faces and human suffering
behind the epidemic of type 2 diabetes that threatens to
overwhelm our health care system. Once a disease of the
elderly, type 2 diabetes now strikes adults in their
prime–and, increasingly, children. It has nearly doubled in
the last decade. The cause? Our soaring rates of obesity. Diabesity takes us to the front lines of the fight against
this preventable but deadly disease. Through vivid patient
stories, it explains how excess weight destroys the body’s
ability to process sugar properly–with life-threatening
consequences. It shows what happens when the genes that
evolved to protect us from famine collide with a sedentary
lifestyle that has put bacon cheeseburgers on every corner.
And it demonstrates why our usual blame-the-victim response
is futile in face of the complex, worldwide forces behind
this epidemic. Detailing the tools for change at every level–from families
to school systems to government–and reporting on innovative
programs that are already making a difference, Diabesity
offers a compelling action plan for winning this battle.
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