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Rethinking Diabetes: Diet, not insulin, holds the key to the epidemic.

Rethinking Diabetes

What Science Reveals about Diet, Insulin and Successful Treatments

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    512 pages

  • Release Date

    6 January 2026

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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
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 *

About The Author

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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