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Diabesity.


Diabesity

Francine R. Kaufman, MD

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There's a firm connection between obesity and diabetes resulting in the current epidemic levels of diabetes in America, and Dr. Kaufman, as past president of the American Diabetes Association The American Diabetes Association, or the ADA, is an American health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy. Founded in 1940, the American Diabetes Association conducts programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, reaching hundreds of , is in the perfect position to identify and comment upon this connection in Diabesity: The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic That Threatens America--And What We Must Do To Stop It. Dr. Kaufman sees vastly overweight children and dangerous new connections between obesity and Type 2 diabetes type 2 diabetes
n.
See diabetes mellitus.
: chapters outline the condition and use patient stories to explain consequences.
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Title Annotation:Diabesity: The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic That Threatens America--And What We Must Do To Stop It
Publication:The Bookwatch
Article Type:Book Review
Date:Aug 1, 2005
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