On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Amadeus Schmidt wrote:
> >Diabetes known in the ancient world and described in medical
> >writings.
> I haven't found any text like you report. Can you point toward some texts?

Todd Moody may have said this:
> It should have been a very common disease, for a populaten with > 90%
> of food of grain or legume. But i looks like it was rare.

Chinese medical texts from thousands of years ago make extensive mention of
symptoms of diabetes.  An entire school of Chinse medicine (a school of
thought or approach) arose in which they only treated spleen/pancreas
problems (which indicate symptoms of diabetes). What the Chinese refer to as
the Spleen is actually the Pancrease in western terms.  Treatment protocals
and herbal remedies to treat these problems were popular, widely used, and
in demand due to the effects of a high grain, low protein style of diet.

They did not have trans fats (yet), nor soda pop, all the cookies, cakes,
pies, pastries, chips, crackers, candies, cold cereal and assorted (sordid?)
crapola that most modern Westerners carve, buy and consume.

Rachel