"An eye-opening, comprehensive history of diabetes research and treatment, by the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat and award-winning journalist"-- Provided by publisher.

The Nature of Medical Knowledge -- The Early History -- Diabetes in Retrospect -- The Fear of Fat -- Insulin -- Rise of the Carbohydrate-Rich Diet -- Good Science Bad Science, Part I -- Good Science Bad Science, Part I! -- Good Science Bad Science, Part III -- The End of Carbohydrate Restriction -- Diabetes and Heart Disease -- What You See Is All There Is -- Low Blood Sugar -- High-Fat Diets -- Very-Low-Carbohydrate Diets -- Epilogue The Conflicts of Evidence-Based Medicine.