Blood Sugar Rising (2020)
America's Hidden Diabetes Epidemic
Blood Sugar Rising follows the diabetes epidemic in the U.S. Diabetes and pre-diabetes affect over 100 million people in the US, costing more than $325 billion each year. Blood Sugar Rising puts human faces to these statistics, exploring the history and science of the illness through portraits of Americans whose stories shape the film.
- Date of release
- 2020-04-15
- Runtime
- 2h 0m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- David Alvarado
Casting
- S. Epatha Merkerson — Narrator (voice)
- Gretchen Carvajal
- Kelly Close
- Ed Damiano
- Laura Grueser
- Anthony Hatch
- James Holt, Jr.
- Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan
- Monteil Lee
- Dean Schillinger
- Nicole Smith-Holt
- Tracey Tirado-Vasquez
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