Today's all about awareness in the Diabetes Online Community. We've all got our own personal histories with the disease, and it's amazing how far we've come in some ways, and how much we have left to travel in others.
I thought I'd link to a diabetes timeline. It's got some interesting tidbits.
There have been some interesting miss-steps - apparently in the late 1850s, patients were prescribed sugar. Between 1900-1915, they were trying carb heavy diets based on milk, rice, oats and potatoes. Elliot P. Joslin, a leading diabetes researcher in the early 1900s proclaimed diabetes as one of the best of the chronic diseases, for being, among other things, 'seldom unsightly'.
Of course, there are some important advances too. Insulin, oral drugs, blood meters, awareness and education campaigns. We're in the middle of so many potential advances. Hopefully in the next few decades, we'll see the disease itself become history.
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Wow, Laura. I bet Dr. Priorry would be paying some pretty substantial malpractice premiums if he was around today!
I think you're right Jeff.
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