I remember the pints of orange juice delivered by the milk man,
In Wales some miners walked 2 hours to get to the coalmine to then go and do a full shift with another 2 hour walk home!! I think of these people and their conditions and lives every time I light the woodburner. Having found a disused mine when living there (that even the local old welsh miners never knew about) and where it was situated... It must have been a **** hard life...
I should have asked the older miners I knew there what their diet was, didn't think about it at the time.
They used to test for diabetes or "the sugar sickness" as it was called back then by visiting drs who used to taste the urine. I kid you not
hence the expression, on the pi*sThey used to test for diabetes or "the sugar sickness" as it was called back then by visiting drs who used to taste the urine. I kid you not
The treatment used to be virtual starvation of the patient.............
That too. So sad to think not very far back in history. It was a terminal disease
@sanguine thank you for posting the diabetic cookbook. I have just read it from cover to cover and found it absolutely fascinating. How amazing that 100 years ago they were counting carbs. Brilliant post!!!
How did they test for diabetes in 1797?
....................no puddings ........................
Yes very sad ..and people died of starvation and other labels , which could be today be diabetes ....but undiagnosed ....people lived in dwellings some make shift and were staving ....quality of life was so often poor ....That too. So sad to think not very far back in history. It was a terminal disease