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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: 20 Interesting Facts About Diabetes
« on: October 04, 2016, 10:37:50 AM »
In 1916, Dr. Frederick M. Allen developed a hospital treatment program that restricted the diet of diabetes patients to whiskey mixed with black coffee (clear soup for non-drinkers). Patients were given this mixture every two hours until sugar disappeared from the urine (usually within 5 days). They were then given a very strict low-carbohydrate diet. This program had the best treatment outcome for its time. Allen's work drew the attention of Dr. Elliot P. Joslin who used it as a basis for calorie-restricted diet study and treatment.

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: 20 Interesting Facts About Diabetes
« on: October 04, 2016, 10:37:27 AM »
Before 1921, the treatment of choice for type 2 diabetes was starvation or semi-starvation.

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: 20 Interesting Facts About Diabetes
« on: October 04, 2016, 10:37:04 AM »
Dr. Priscilla White pioneered treatment for diabetes in pregnancy. She joined the practice of Dr. Elliott P. Joslin in 1924 when the fetal success rate was 54%. By the time of her retirement in 1974, the fetal success rate was 90%.

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: 20 Interesting Facts About Diabetes
« on: October 04, 2016, 10:36:14 AM »
Dr. Elliot P. Joslin said diabetes is "the best of the chronic diseases" on account of it being "clean, seldom unsightly, not contagious, often painless and susceptible to treatment."

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: 20 Interesting Facts About Diabetes
« on: October 04, 2016, 10:35:49 AM »
Dr. Elliot P. Joslin said diabetes is "the best of the chronic diseases" on account of it being "clean, seldom unsightly, not contagious, often painless and susceptible to treatment."

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: 20 Interesting Facts About Diabetes
« on: October 04, 2016, 10:35:28 AM »
Dr. Elliott P. Joslin, founder of the Joslin Diabetes Center, was the first doctor to specialize in diabetes and to encourage self-management. He became interested after his aunt was diagnosed and was told there was no cure and little hope. She died of diabetes complications not long after. His mother was diagnosed the year he started his practice in 1898 (a few years after the death of his aunt). He helped her manage her diabetes and she lived 10 more years which was quite a feat for the times.

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: 20 Interesting Facts About Diabetes
« on: October 04, 2016, 10:35:09 AM »
In the late 1850's a French physician named Priorry advised his patients with diabetes to eat large quantities of sugar. Obviously, that method of treatment did not last.

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: 20 Interesting Facts About Diabetes
« on: October 04, 2016, 10:34:46 AM »
In ancient times, doctors would test for diabetes by tasting urine to see if it was sweet. People who tasted urine to check for diabetes were called "water tasters." Other diagnostic measures included checking to see if urine attracted ants or flies.

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: 20 Interesting Facts About Diabetes
« on: October 04, 2016, 10:34:22 AM »
Diabetes is a Greek word that means "to pass through." It was observed that urine quickly passed through patients with diabetes. The word mellitus is from Latin and means "sweet like honey."

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: 20 Interesting Facts About Diabetes
« on: October 04, 2016, 10:33:57 AM »
Dr. Thomas Willis (1621-1675) called diabetes the "pissing evil" and described the urine of people with type 2 diabetes as "wonderfully sweet, as if it was imbued with honey or sugar." He was also the first to describe pain and stinging from nerve damage due to diabetes.

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: 20 Interesting Facts About Diabetes
« on: October 04, 2016, 10:33:32 AM »
The Greek physician Aretaeus was credited with coming up with the name "diabetes" in the first century A.D. and thought a snake bite caused diabetes.

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: 20 Interesting Facts About Diabetes
« on: October 04, 2016, 10:33:04 AM »
Diabetes symptoms such as thirst, weight loss, and excess urination were recognized for more than 1200 years before the disease got a name.

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: 20 Interesting Facts About Diabetes
« on: October 04, 2016, 10:32:42 AM »
The earliest known written record that likely referred to diabetes was in 1500 B.C in the Egyptian Ebers papyrus. It referred to the symptoms of frequent urination.

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: 20 Interesting Facts About Diabetes
« on: October 04, 2016, 10:32:16 AM »
The country with the highest percentage of people with type 2 diabetes is a tiny island in the South Pacific called Nauru. It is the world's third smallest country after the Vatican City and Monaco.

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: 20 Interesting Facts About Diabetes
« on: October 04, 2016, 10:31:51 AM »
India has the highest population of people with type 2 diabetes, more than any other country in the world.

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