Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments

by Gary Taubes

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An eye-opening investigation into the history of diabetes research and treatment by the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of Why We Get Fat • "[Gary] Taubes’s meticulous, science-based work makes him the Bryan Stevenson of nutrition, an early voice in the wilderness for an unorthodox view that is increasingly becoming accepted."—Neil Barsky, The Guardian

Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes was treated almost exclusively through diet, from subsistence on meat, to reliance on fats, to repeated fasting and near-starvation regimens. After two centuries of conflicting medical advice, most authorities today believe that those with diabetes can have the same dietary...Read more
  • ISBN10 0525520082
  • ISBN13 9780525520085
  • Publish Date 2 January 2024
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Knopf