![]() ![]() So how did this wonderful breakthrough blossom? Let’s travel back a little more than 100 years ago.… Harsh diets (some prescribed as little as 450 calories a day!) sometimes even caused patients to die of starvation. This could buy patients a few extra years but couldn’t save them. ![]() The most effective treatment was to put patients with diabetes on very strict diets with minimal carbohydrate intake. However, if you have diabetes, no doubt you’re also a big fan of one particular 20 th-century discovery: insulin.īefore insulin was discovered in 1921, people with diabetes didn’t live for long there wasn’t much doctors could do for them. ![]() The modern age has given us some amazing technological advances-what we would do without the internet, our iPhones or high-speed travel?įor many people, surviving life without these things sounds rough. Since the dawn of time, we have searched for ways to make life easier for us. ![]()
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