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<blockquote data-quote="angieG" data-source="post: 462602" data-attributes="member: 30853"><p>Before insulin was invented starvation diets were the only way to try and save diabetics, but not very well. Reading this would definitely put me off stopping my insulin...</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">" In the early 20th century, diabetologists such as Dr. Frederick Allen prescribed <a href="http://diabeteshealth.com/browse/food/low-calorie-and-low-fat/" target="_blank">low calorie</a> diets-as little as 450 calories per day for his patients. His diet prolonged the life of people with diabetes but kept them weak and suffering from near starvation. In effect, the most a person afflicted with diabetes could do was blindly offer himself to the medical establishment and pray for a cure. In his book, The Discovery of <a href="http://diabeteshealth.com/browse/medications/insulin/" target="_blank">Insulin</a>, Michael Bliss describes the painful wasting death of many people with diabetes before insulin: "Food and drink no longer mattered, often could not be taken. A restless drowsiness shaded into semi-consciousness. As the lungs heaved desperately to expel carbonic acid (as carbon dioxide), the dying <a href="http://diabeteshealth.com/" target="_blank">diabetic</a> took huge gasps of air to try to increase his capacity. 'Air hunger' the doctors called it, and the whole process was sometimes described as 'internal suffocation.' The gasping and sighing and sweet smell lingered on as the unconsciousness became a deep diabetic coma. At that point the family could make its arrangements with the undertaker, for within a few hours death would end the suffering."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Taken from <a href="http://diabeteshealth.com/read/2008/12/17/715/the-history-of-diabetes/" target="_blank">http://diabeteshealth.com/read/2008/12/17/715/the-history-of-diabetes/</a></span></p><p></p><p>Regards</p><p>Angie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="angieG, post: 462602, member: 30853"] Before insulin was invented starvation diets were the only way to try and save diabetics, but not very well. Reading this would definitely put me off stopping my insulin... [COLOR=#5900b3]" In the early 20th century, diabetologists such as Dr. Frederick Allen prescribed [URL='http://diabeteshealth.com/browse/food/low-calorie-and-low-fat/']low calorie[/URL] diets-as little as 450 calories per day for his patients. His diet prolonged the life of people with diabetes but kept them weak and suffering from near starvation. In effect, the most a person afflicted with diabetes could do was blindly offer himself to the medical establishment and pray for a cure. In his book, The Discovery of [URL='http://diabeteshealth.com/browse/medications/insulin/']Insulin[/URL], Michael Bliss describes the painful wasting death of many people with diabetes before insulin: "Food and drink no longer mattered, often could not be taken. A restless drowsiness shaded into semi-consciousness. As the lungs heaved desperately to expel carbonic acid (as carbon dioxide), the dying [URL='http://diabeteshealth.com/']diabetic[/URL] took huge gasps of air to try to increase his capacity. 'Air hunger' the doctors called it, and the whole process was sometimes described as 'internal suffocation.' The gasping and sighing and sweet smell lingered on as the unconsciousness became a deep diabetic coma. At that point the family could make its arrangements with the undertaker, for within a few hours death would end the suffering."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Taken from [url]http://diabeteshealth.com/read/2008/12/17/715/the-history-of-diabetes/[/url][/COLOR] Regards Angie [/QUOTE]
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