Diabesity: A Doctor and Her Patients on the Front Lines of the Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic Pdf Reviews

Book Detail
Edition: Reprint
Release: 2006-01-31
Publisher: Bantam
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0553383795
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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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 Download Diabesity for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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