Diabetes Danger: What 200 Million Americans at Risk Need to Know - Softcover

This comprehensive book provides much-needed information on the horrifying dangers of uncontrolled diabetes. This is an essential guide for diabetics, their caregivers or anyone who has diabetes in their family. Diabetes Danger also provides crucial advice for those seeking to prevent a diabetes outbreak of epidemic proportions.Among the important questions Dr. Bortz addresses in Diabetes Danger:. What is diabetes, and how did it grow from an almost unknown disease to today's epidemic?. How does our genetic makeup combined with the modern lifestyle almost guarantee that an American will contract diabetes?. Why doctors don't prescribe the best treatment for the disease?. Why can't drugs cure it? . Can watching television increase diabetes risk?. What steps can you take to save your body from physical ruin?Dr. Bortz's book offers hope, showing steps that should be taken to quench the fire of diabetes. He also gives potential strategies to reverse diabetes' symptoms once the dreaded disease has struck. Often, health maintenance rather than medical intervention is more effective in reining in this horrible disease.

Walter M. Bortz II is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and a graduate of Williams College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Bortz's research has focused on the metabolism of carbohydrate and fat, and the importance of exercise in healthy aging.