Medicine: Diabetes

According to Harvard's Dr. Elliott Proctor Joslin, at least 2,500,000 people in the U.S. have or will have diabetes before they die. According to Toronto's Dr. Charles Herbert Best, co-discoverer of insulin, most of these people may be able to stall off the disease or smother it in the early stages if they take proper measures. Last fortnight both men, greatest diabetes authorities in the world, met in the New York Academy of Medicine, told doctors how to hold down the rising diabetes rate.* Significant facts:

> Diabetes is a disease of combustion:...

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