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Why were "starvation diets" promoted for diabetes in the pre-insulin period?
In the decade before the discovery of insulin, the prominent American physicians Frederick Allen and Elliott Joslin advocated severe fasting and undernutrition to prolong the lives of diabetic patients. Detractors called this "starvation dieting," and some patients did indeed starve to dea...
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BioMed Central
2011
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3062586/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21396115 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-10-23 |