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

[Dan Phelps]

Was written:>
> 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).

With all due respect to the good Doctor would seem likely to me that given
the short life expectancy pre-1600 that most type II diabetics didn't live
to see the onset of the overt symptoms of the disease.

Daniel
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