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Title: The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes

Note: Reading ease score: 77.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

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Summary: "The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes" by Lewis Webb Hill and Rena Sarah Eckman is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. The book focuses on the innovative dietary approaches to managing diabetes, particularly emphasizing the methods developed by Dr. Frederick M. Allen at the Massachusetts General Hospital. It aims to provide healthcare practitioners with detailed instructions and recipes for a series of diets intended to support patients through the stages of treatment. The opening of the work includes an introduction that discusses the significance and effectiveness of the starvation treatment for diabetes as a method that has shown promise in clinical settings. The authors present a motivation for their book by detailing the importance of understanding the composition of food and the precise caloric values required for effective treatment. The text outlines the initial medical approaches to diabetes management, highlights the starvation period where patients consume limited calories primarily through whiskey or broth, and sets the stage for the structured progression of dietary adjustments that follow, emphasizing care in monitoring carbohydrate and protein intake. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Author: Hill, Lewis Webb, 1889-1968

Author: Eckman, Rena Sarah, 1868-

EBook No.: 26058

Published: Jul 14, 2008

Downloads: 152

Language: English

Subject: Diabetes

Subject: Diet in disease

LoCC: Medicine: Internal medicine

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.

This edition has images.

Title: The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes

Note: Reading ease score: 77.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Credits: Produced by Stacy Brown, Bryan Ness and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at https: //www.pgdp.net (This
book was produced from scanned images of public domain
material from the Google Print project.)

Summary: "The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes" by Lewis Webb Hill and Rena Sarah Eckman is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. The book focuses on the innovative dietary approaches to managing diabetes, particularly emphasizing the methods developed by Dr. Frederick M. Allen at the Massachusetts General Hospital. It aims to provide healthcare practitioners with detailed instructions and recipes for a series of diets intended to support patients through the stages of treatment. The opening of the work includes an introduction that discusses the significance and effectiveness of the starvation treatment for diabetes as a method that has shown promise in clinical settings. The authors present a motivation for their book by detailing the importance of understanding the composition of food and the precise caloric values required for effective treatment. The text outlines the initial medical approaches to diabetes management, highlights the starvation period where patients consume limited calories primarily through whiskey or broth, and sets the stage for the structured progression of dietary adjustments that follow, emphasizing care in monitoring carbohydrate and protein intake. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Author: Hill, Lewis Webb, 1889-1968

Author: Eckman, Rena Sarah, 1868-

EBook No.: 26058

Published: Jul 14, 2008

Downloads: 152

Language: English

Subject: Diabetes

Subject: Diet in disease

LoCC: Medicine: Internal medicine

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.