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Diabetes by
Who gets diabetes and why? An in‑depth examination of diabetes in the context of race, public health, class, and heredity "[An] unsettling but insightful social history."--Kirkus Reviews "The important lessons of Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease may strengthen organized medicine's commitment to addressing social determinants of health and equity."--David Goldberg, Health Affairs Who is considered most at risk for diabetes, and why? In this thorough, engaging book, historian Arleen Tuchman examines and critiques how these questions have been answered by both the public and medical communities for over a century in the United States. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Tuchman describes how at different times Jews, middle‑class whites, American Indians, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans have been labeled most at risk for developing diabetes, and that such claims have reflected and perpetuated troubling assumptions about race, ethnicity, and class. She describes how diabetes underwent a mid-century transformation in the public's eye from being a disease of wealth and "civilization" to one of poverty and "primitive" populations. In tracing this cultural history, Tuchman argues that shifting understandings of diabetes reveal just as much about scientific and medical beliefs as they do about the cultural, racial, and economic milieus of their time.
ISBN: 0300228996Publication Date: 2020
Sugar consumption by
Excessive sugar consumption can lead to serious health conditions. This title explains the latest sugar consumption guidelines and details the amount of sugar added to common food and beverage items. It also offers helpful advice on reducing unhealthy sugar intake through personal dietary behaviours and government policy approaches. How much sugar is it OK to eat, what are its health impacts, and how can we manage its consumption? Also includes: worksheets and activities, fast facts, glossary, web links, index.
Publication Date: 2017
Sickly Sweet by
Is there evidence for addiction to food? How strong is this evidence? If so, what element of food makes it addictive? Over the last forty years, our waistlines have continued to expand in nearly all countries, despite attempts to slim populations. Does this information shed any light on the seemingly insoluble obesity epidemic? This book explores a radical rethink in what has caused the global obesity epidemic. A consideration of which types of food are most likely to be responsible is presented, as well as an understanding of how human motivation and addiction may help us understand why people gain weight. Parallels with a range of other addiction syndromes to help uncover the elusive key to unlocking the obesity epidemic are considered.
Publication Date: 2011
Food Choice and Obesity in Black America by
Anthropologist Eric Bailey uses a cultural and holistic analysis of African American food preferences to show how black Americans generally perceive health, body image, food, dieting, physical fitness, and exercise. As is true of Americans overall, black Americans are becoming more overweight and obese than ever before. So, too, they are seeing the consequences: heart attacks, strokes, hypertension, and Type II diabetes at earlier and earlier ages. Bailey offers a new cultural diet for black Americans and a prescription for working collectively, not only to understand this critical health issue, but also to establish a lifestyle strategy that will be both effective and manageable. Celebrity Black Americans who have fought excess weight. The cultural history of Black American cuisine. A review of soul food cookbooks. A critique of corporate America's failure to market health and fitness to the Black community. An overview of federally funded diet and fitness programs for Black Americans.
Call Number: RC628 .B282 2006
Websites
- Be Sugar Smart
from Center for Disease Control (CDC) - Statistics About Diabetes
from American Diabetes Association (ADA) - Racial and ethnic minority communities hit hard by type 2 diabetes: Here’s what we can do
from Harvard Health Publishing - Eating too much added sugar increases the risk of dying with heart diseasefrom Harvard Health Publishing
Online Articles
- Americans need to more than halve their consumption of added sugars, says Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
Food-Navigator, July 15, 2020
Sugar in Kool Aid
Incidence of Diabetes Among Different Ethnic Groups
- Fact Sheet: Health Disparities in Diabetes
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) - Race/Ethnic Difference in Diabetes and Diabetic Complications
from National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes Prevalence, Self-Management, and Health Outcomes among Medicare Beneficiaries
from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) - Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Prevalence and Care of Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
from National Library of Medicine - Race/Ethnic Difference in Diabetes and Diabetic Complicationsfrom National Library of Medicine
- Fighting Diabetes' Deadly Impact on Minorities
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Prevalence of Diabetes by Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 2011-2016
JAMA Network, December 24-31, 2019
Databases
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
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- Science Direct This link opens in a new window
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- Health Source - Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
Articles about medicine and health for professionals and patients.
- Nursing and Allied Health This link opens in a new window
Articles about nursing, allied health, occupational and physical therapy,
diagnostic imaging, nutrition, and dental hygiene.
- Medlineplus.gov
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