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turbinetree

(26,499 posts)
9. Does this doofus know anything about the discovery of insulin.........let me remind this idiot............
Sun May 25, 2025, 05:45 PM
May 2025

Diabetes Day by Day
The History of a Wonderful Thing We Call Insulin

Since the dawn of time, we have searched for ways to make life easier for us. The modern age has given us some amazing technological advances—what we would do without the internet, our iPhones or high-speed travel?

For many people, surviving life without these things sounds rough. However, if you have diabetes, no doubt you’re also a big fan of one particular 20th-century discovery: insulin.

Before insulin was discovered in 1921, people with diabetes didn’t live for long; there wasn’t much doctors could do for them. The most effective treatment was to put patients with diabetes on very strict diets with minimal carbohydrate intake. This could buy patients a few extra years but couldn’t save them. Harsh diets (some prescribed as little as 450 calories a day!) sometimes even caused patients to die of starvation.


https://diabetes.org/blog/history-wonderful-thing-we-call-insulin

Continue to make an ass out of yourself ...................Dude..............

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He needs to educate himself. Withholding insulin would cause many, many, many immediate deaths. Vinca May 2025 #1
A bag of rat excrement like him... GiqueCee May 2025 #14
He obviously knows nothing about Type 1 diabetics--a bunch of skinny, sick kids Bayard May 2025 #29
And some adults who can acquire it as a result of endocrine system disorders. Vinca May 2025 #30
have a friend who's daughter was dx'd at 6 mos. mopinko May 2025 #31
I seem to recall TSF and his merry band of goons reversing the healthy school lunches put in place by Michelle Obama. sinkingfeeling May 2025 #2
Josh Johnson talks about that very thing in this video blogslug May 2025 #5
Yep. Anyone remember Sarah Palin and her Big Gulp... keep_left May 2025 #11
"Not just throwing insulin at people" means "in addition to insulin". TheRickles May 2025 #3
Yes, this is one of them. LuckyCharms May 2025 #7
Had the word order changed slightly rambler_american May 2025 #21
I still take the phrase to mean "throwing other things in addition to insulin". Whatever.... TheRickles May 2025 #25
It's a super insulting way of framing it no matter what the full statement was LearnedHand May 2025 #28
Aren't these the same people that mocked Michelle Obama over her concern with unhealthy school lunches? Solly Mack May 2025 #4
Of course, but it's Totally Different when a republicon does it. MLWR May 2025 #22
Type 1 here. Without insulin, I would last maybe 4-5 days. Then death. LuckyCharms May 2025 #6
Kill the non-whites malaise May 2025 #8
Does this doofus know anything about the discovery of insulin.........let me remind this idiot............ turbinetree May 2025 #9
Really? peggysue2 May 2025 #10
It's old-time hee-haw American Calvinism once again. keep_left May 2025 #13
The Repugs just won't come out and say it. Delmette2.0 May 2025 #26
So much wrong with that. Ms. Toad May 2025 #12
My late mother had Type 2 diabetes jmowreader May 2025 #17
Times are different now. Ms. Toad May 2025 #18
When the nice black woman focused on school lunches, you called her a communist JT45242 May 2025 #15
Suffering Jesus. How stupid can one person be and still breathe? TomSlick May 2025 #16
I'll bet nobody will ever be capable of explaining to him Warpy May 2025 #19
"Throwing insulin" is just another iteration. . . Collimator May 2025 #20
Type 1 is what my great niece LittleGirl May 2025 #23
I checked Marty Makary's resume. It is very impressive and he is obviously highly regarded by his peers. flashman13 May 2025 #24
Prediabetes could be treated with cooking classes and access to healthier food NickB79 May 2025 #27
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