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.
David Alvarado
Writer, Director

S. Epatha Merkerson
Narrator (voice)
Gretchen Carvajal
Kelly Close
Ed Damiano
Laura Grueser
Anthony Hatch
James Holt, Jr.
Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan
Monteil Lee
Public Speaking70%
The Class of ‘9271%
Directed by John Ford70%
A Plastic Ocean75%
McQueen74%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars63%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Champs63%
180° South72%
Room 23761%
The Carter Effect70%
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds75%
The Skywalker Legacy78%
Harmontown66%
Seven Up!71%