Diabetes Danger What 200 Million Americans at Risk Need to Know

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.

Dr. Walter M. Bortz is one of America's most distinguished scientific experts on aging. After training at Williams College and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, he has spent his career at Stanford University, where he holds the position of Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine. His research has focused on the importance of physical exercise in the promotion of robust aging. Dr. Bortz's books include We Live Too Short and Die Too Long, Dare To Be 100 and Living Longer for Dummies. An avid runner, the 75-year-old physician completed thirty-five marathons and is a columnist for Runner's World magazine.