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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yorksman" data-source="post: 376319" data-attributes="member: 55568">According to the History of Diabetes (PubMed 2002), "Clinical features similar to diabetes mellitus were described 3000 years ago by the ancient Egyptians. The term "diabetes" was first coined by Araetus of Cappodocia (81-133AD). Later, the word mellitus (honey sweet) was added by Thomas Willis (Britain) in 1675 after rediscovering the sweetness of urine and blood of patients (first noticed by the ancient Indians)."We have always eaten carbs. They became a staple foodstuff with the introduction of farming around 7000 years ago with the onset of the Neolithic but we ate them before through gathering, not farming.One can make too much of our earlier diets. We are all born with a vermiform appendix which harks back to our leaf eating days, but few people live in trees foraging on the branches these days, at least, not unless the local authority is building a bypass.</blockquote>

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