The first part of The Diabetes Answer Book has five chapters with a lot of questions about what causes diabetes and how it might be prevented or cured. Here are the questions for chapter 1:
Chapter 1 Causes of Diabetes
What is diabetes mellitus?
What causes diabetes?
What is insulin and how does it work?
What is insulin resistance?
Is diabetes caused by having too little insulin or by being resistant to insulin?
Can insulin resistance be treated?
Is diabetes caused by eating too much sugar and junk food?
Is diabetes caused by being overweight?
Can stress cause diabetes?
Whay are so many people getting diabetes nowadays?
Does diabetes ever go away on its own?
Does diabetes "skip a generation?"
How can I get diabetes if no-one in my family has it?
How can pregnancy cause diabetes that goes away afterwards?
When is it helpful to measure the insulin level in a person's blood?
What is C-peptide?
When is it helpful to measure C-peptide in a person's blood?
What is islet cell antibody (ICA)?
What is glutamic acid decarboxylase antibody (GADA)?
When is it helfpul to measure ICA and GADA?
When are genetic test useful?