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

by Walter M. Bortz II

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 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.

156 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2005

About the author

Walter M. Bortz II, M.D. (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; B.S., Williams College), is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Recognized as one of America’s most distinguished scientific experts on aging and longevity. Dr. Bortz's research has focused on the importance of physical exercise in the promotion of robust aging. Dr. Bortz has published over 130 medical articles and authored numerous books. Dr. Bortz is past co-chairman of the American Medical Association’s Task Force on Aging, former President of The American Geriatric Society and is currently Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board for the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation, as well as a Senior Advisor to Healthy Silicon Valley, a community collaborative effort which addresses the soaring incidence of obesity and diabetes.

Reviews

[Jennifer Taylor · Rating 1 out of 5]

It uses a lot of scare tactics and worst case sceanarios the people their talkig about have poorly controlled diabetes they wanna scare diabectics about highs and lows and complications.
When the devices and medicnes we have now can prevent a lot of that stuff