http://centennial.rucares.org/index.php?page=Dietary_Therapy_Diabetes http://centennial.rucares.org/index.php?page=Dietary_Therapy... Starvation is the way the

http://centennial.rucares.org/index.php?page=Dietary_Therapy_Diabetes http://centennial.rucares.org/index.php?page=Dietary_Therapy... Starvation is the way they used to treat the disease in the early part of the twentieth century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Madison_Allen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Madison_Allen Allen was not the first person to recommend treatment of diabetes by diet; as Ramachandran and Viswanathan (1998) point out, dietary treatment of diabetes mellitus was used in ancient Egypt as long ago as 3,500 B.C., and was being used in India about 2,500 years ago. These authors note that in the eighteenth century, John Rollo had observed that glycosuria in diabetics could be reduced if sufferers of diabetes mellitus reduced the quantity of their food consumed. However, Allen became famous in his own day for his recommendations, and Allen and his co-workers published their work on the diabetic diet in 1919, in a work entitled "Total Dietary Regulation in the Treatment of Diabetes". Today, however, diabetologists would take quite different views on this subject to those promoted by Allen. Indeed, Joslin, in 1922, suggested different diet recommendations to those of Allen, suggesting a reduction of fat rather than carbohydrate, with the overall goal of reduction in calorie intake (Hockaday, 1981). Allen has been named as one of the two leading diabetologists, along with Elliott P. Joslin, in the period 1910 to 1920. Apparently it was used way before that period as well.