Don't forget to wash the veggetables 3X to get rid of the carbs (and nutrients) !
The trouble with the starvation diet is that it did no more than prolong life. For some children perhaps only weeks to a couple of years, for adults a bit longer. ...we don't know what sort of diabetes older people had from the statistics of the time .
'The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes' from 1916' doesn't tell you what happened to the patients after discharge, they didn't know and said so
It is, of course, too early to say how far reaching and how permanent
the effects of such a diet will be in the severe and in the milder
cases of diabetes.
All of them would have been quite sick when they went into hospital (either with T1 or latter stage T2), They had very high glucose levels.
We do know now, at least we know the figures for the Joslin hospital where the diet originated.
length of time from diagnosis to death Joslin 1914-22
(the Allen Era )
Age
Under 10 .........2.9yrs
10-19............. 2.7 yrs
20-39 .............4.9yrs
40-59............. 8 yrs
60 and over ......6.4 yrs
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article ... 8-0003.pdf
Yes the diet kept some people alive for a while but it really was starvation.
One of the first children to receive insulin, Elizabeth Hughes was on the diet from 1919-22. Sometimes her diet was kept as little as 400calories a day . By todays standards her glucose levels may still have been relatively high since the diet was adjusted by testing urine. By the time she received insulin
'Almost fifteen years old, she weighed 45lbs (just over 3stone, or 20.5kilos)She had dry skin,brittle hair and "wasted" muscles. "She was scarcely able to walk on account of weakness" Cheating Destiny
: Living with Diabetes James S. Hirsch
