snarky remarks about eating habits Re: [Sca-cooks] Sweet potatoes

[Avraham haRofeh of Sudentur]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:20:18 -0500, lourenen at hotmail.com wrote:
> Deaths in that time frame were never attributed to "diabetes".  It
> is only within the last
> 20 or so years that diabetes has been put as the cause of death.
> In the  17th and 18th
> century is wasn't diagnosed  much because those afflicted tended to
> die very young and
> sometimes the symptoms were not recognized as caused by diabetes,
> such as gout, heart
> attack or circulatory problems, etc.

It was frequently diagnosed; it just couldn't be TREATED. Furthermore, the 
relationship to heart disease has been known for centuries. It was the 
pathophysiology that connected the two that was missing. Type I diabetics do 
tend to die young, but most type II diabetics don't even develop overt 
disease until the 5th decade of life (although that's becoming younger and 
younger in modern America).


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Avraham haRofeh of Sudentur
     (mka Randy Goldberg MD)
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