A few days ago I was browsing through an old physiology textbook, the one I used when I was in college, because I was curious to read what they said about diabetes way back then.
The book, Textbook of Medical Physiology, second edition, by Arthur Guyton, was copyright in 1956, more than 50 years ago. And I came across this statement:
"In the early days of treating diabetes it was the tendency to reduce the carbohydrates in the diet so that the insulin requirements would be minimized. This...
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