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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grateful" data-source="post: 1625247" data-attributes="member: 438800">Thank you, that is absolutely fascinating. They had figured out LCHF in considerable detail. They had the same controversy that we do today about the supposed harm of "high fat" but when they tried the low-carb, low-fat treatment some patients died of malnutrition or -- as they said in those days -- "inanition."There is this, which has been bothering me for a while: "Dr Newburgh ... once remarked to us that the discovery of insulin was a severe setback to the advancement of the science and art of nutrition. How prophetic he was."And the conclusion: "[T]he researches of Newburgh et al. are the most scientifically advanced, conscientiously performed, and intelligently analyzed clinical investigations we will ever have into the effects of diet on a population suffering from decompensated diabetes in a world without insulin. Нis experiment can never be recreated and modern research into the same question shows how well its results have withstood the passage of time and the improvement of scientific techniques; it would be, in our opinion, a tragic mistake to regard this research as obsolete or irrelevant to modern questions around diabetes and diet."The mortality rate in those days was clearly very high, even among those being "treated" for diabetes, not just because injectable insulin was not available but also because they still couldn't distinguish between Type 1 and Type 2.</blockquote>

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