What Was the Old Diabetic Diet? Exploring Early Diabetes Management
                                
                                
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                                Before the discovery of insulin in 1921, a diagnosis of diabetes was often a death sentence, with patients surviving only a few years. To prolong life, the most common approach was a highly restrictive, low-carbohydrate regimen, which leads us to ask: what was the old diabetic diet?