Diabetes rising how a rare disease became a modern pandemic, and what to do about it

Table of Contents:

Pissing evil : from ancient times to the discovery of insulin
Two steps back : deaths continue rising despite insulin and pills, 1923-1975
Try harder : the rise of tight control for type 1, 1975-present day
The sweetest place on earth : type 2 reaches unimagined heights, 1984-present day
The accelerator hypothesis : weight gain as the missing link, between type 1 and type 2
The cow's milk hypothesis : does baby formula in the first months of life set off an immune attack?
The pop hypothesis : the risks of persistent organic pollutants
The sunshine hypothesis : how too little sun, and too little vitamin D, might raise diabetes risk
The hygiene hypothesis : the icky benefits of dirt, germs and worms
The computer cure : the quest for an artificial pancreas
The surgical cure : can bariatric surgery stop type 2 in its tracks?
The biological cure : the search for a pill that cures type 1, once and for all
The public health cure : prevention is the ultimate key to ending the diabetes pandemic.