Rethinking Diabetes
What Science Reveals about Diet, Insulin and Successful Treatments
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- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
6 January 2026
Summary
Over 400 million people around the world have been diagnosed with diabetes. Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes was treated through diet, from eating purely meat to the reliance on fats, and repeated fasting. After two centuries of conflicting medical advice, most authorities today believe that those with diabetes can have the same dietary freedom enjoyed by the rest of us, including the occasional ice-cream, leaving the job of controlling the disease to insulin therapy. However, this g…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781803510705 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1803510706 |
| Author: | Gary Taubes |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Imprint: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 6 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 342g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
This is Taubes’s fifth book about nutrition science, and I would argue that his meticulous, science-based work […] makes him the Bryan Stevenson of nutrition, an early voice in the wilderness for an unorthodox view that is increasingly becoming accepted * Guardian *
Gary Taubes
Gary Taubes is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling The Case for Keto, The Case Against Sugar, and The Diet Delusion. An award-winning science and health journalist, his writing has appeared in Discover, Science, the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Nature, and the British Journal of Medicine. He has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the U.S. National Association of Science Writers, an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and is a co-founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative. He lives in Oakland, California.
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