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Henry T. Ricketts, MD

JAMA. 1976;236(20):2321-2322.

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For many years, D. P. Burkitt and his colleagues¹ have made war on the diet of North America, quite rightly, because it lacks the fiber and roughage that help to keep all manner of noninfective illnesses away. One of these diseases, old but now with a new quirk, has come on the scene. We have learned that diabetes is a "fiber deficiency disorder."² This unlikely news, however, may not be so odd as it seems.

Douglass,³ a Los Angeles physician, using a diet of half-and-half ordinary food and raw fruits, vegetables, and nuts, reduced a diabetic patient's insulin dose from 60 to 30 units daily during four years, resulting in a weight loss of 2.1 kg. Another patient was able to reduce his insulin dose from 70 units daily to zero during 15 months with a weight loss of 2.9 kg, although in the end he required . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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