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Dr. Kellogg appointed Lenna as the Chief Dietitian of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and the Director and Dean of the Battle Creek Sanitarium School of Home Economics - which created 500 vegetarian dietitians over her tenure.
Academy Co-Founder Lenna Frances Cooper: A Pioneer in Vegetarian Nutrition and Dietetics
January 1, 1907
"In 1901, Lenna graduated in nursing from the Battle Creek Sanitarium (a Seventh-day Adventist health institution) in Battle Creek, Michigan. It was there that she became a protégé of the famed vegetarian physician, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, superintendent, and medical director of the sanitarium."
Academy Co-Founder Lenna Frances Cooper: A Pioneer in Vegetarian Nutrition and Dietetics
January 1, 1901
The American Dietetic Association was co-founded by Lenna Frances Cooper in 1917, who specialized in vegetarian nutrition due to influence from John Harvey Kellogg. She was senior author of Nutrition in Health and Disease, used as a textbook for 30 years in dietetic and nursing programs throughout the world.
100th Anniversary of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
January 1, 1917
Hypoglycemic symptoms provoked by repeated glucose ingestion in a case of renal diabetes - A case study of using repeated bouts of 50 grams of carbs shows the danger of hypoglycemia "consisting of burning and flushing of the face, weakness, tremor and sweating. The second shock was the more severe of the two."
Hypoglycemic symptoms provoked by repeated glucose ingestion in a case of renal diabetes by R.B. Gibson, Ph.D and R.N. Larimer, M.D., Iowa City
February 9, 1924
Kelly West rediscovers the high carbohydrate diet and Himsworth's results, and then the fear of saturated fat pushes the ADA to accept the high carb/ low fat recommendations popular at the time. Read his fascinating review of the science in 1973 which are balanced despite their support of carbohydrate.
Diet therapy of diabetes: an analysis of failure by Kelly M West
January 1, 1973
An English journal repeats the claims of a German science paper by highlighting that it has shown that variations in the content of the sugar in the blood are due to eating carbohydrate, and an amount of carbohydrate such as 100 grams can lead to unmistakable glycosuria while fat and protein didn't effect blood sugar and inhibited carbs when eaten.
The Variations in the Content of Sugar in the Blood
January 10, 1914
Sweeney studies healthy young people to see how feeding them a certain macronutrient influences the results of a glucose tolerance test, and proves that carbohydrates sensitize the body to future carbohydrates, while fat and starving create an insulin resistance effect where blood sugar stays high after a sudden assault of glucose.
Dietary Factors that Influence the Dextrose Tolerance test - A preliminary study - by J. Shirley Sweeney, M.D.
December 1, 1927
Staub-Traugott effect is shown where if two consecutive doses of glucose are given to a healthy subject the hyperglycaemia resulting from the second dose is lower than that after the first.
Studies on Blood Sugar - Effects upon the blood sugar of the repeated indigestion of glucose by Louis Hamman
January 1, 1919
Dr Himsworth explains why he thinks high carb diets are good for diabetics - and pays special attention to how carbohydrate sensitizes the pancreas to release more insulin, while also speaking towards insulin resistance. His 11 page science article is pretty interesting.
High Carbohydrate Diets and Insulin Efficiency
July 14, 1934
In 1958 William Daughaday commented on behalf of the American Dietetic Association that ‘uncertainty exists in the minds of many physicians today concerning the therapeutic role of diet in diabetes’ and limited to 40% the amount of carbohydrate in the diet.
Dietary treatment of adults with diabetes mellitus by W H DAUGHADAY
January 1, 1958
The first of a case series of diabetes treatment is described by Dr Allen, where a 28 year old female was addicted to candy and tried both a vegetarian and an all-meat diet before turning into a Christian Scientist and eventually cheating on her fasting and dieting.
Total dietary regulation in the treatment of diabetes
August 1, 1915
Griesinger publishes an analysis of 225 cases of diabetes, but his most notable achievement was the demonstration, in three separate experiments on a single patient, of sugar excretion equalling exactly 60 per cent of the protein of the diet in this individual on exclusive meat diet.
Studien uber diabetes
January 1, 1859
"As late as 1886, Naunyn stood as the champion of strict carbohydrate-free diet in a German medical congress where most of the speakers opposed it. As one of the few early German followers of the Cantani system, he maintained its feasibility and ultimate benefit, and locked patients in their rooms for five months when necessary for sugar-freedom."
Total Dietary Regulation of Diabetes
January 1, 1886
The invention of insulin means that doctors can allow type 1 diabetics to eat more carbohydrates, apparently because it greatly increased their well-being because a low carb diet is apparently miserable. Dr Rabinowitch was prescribing diets with as much as 400 grams of carbohydrates!
Diet, delusion and diabetes
January 1, 1935
Voit finds that the average man "requires daily 118 grams of proteid or albuminous food, of which 105 grams should be absorbable, 56 grams of fat, and 500 grams of carbohydrate, with a total fuel value of over 3000 large calories, in order to maintain the body in equilibrium. The Voit standard or daily diet is accepted more or less generally as representing the needs of the body under normal conditions of life."
Physiological economy in nutrition
January 1, 1913
Frederick Allen discovered that when dogs with only 20% of their pancreas was left after surgery ‘On an Eskimo diet they may be found to live in health...on a Hindu diet they soon go down to fatal diabetes’ proving that low carb diets could be sustained with low pancreas function.
Studies concerning glycosuria and diabetes.
January 1, 1913
Sydenham suffers from the disease of kings, gout, which is caused by metabolic disturbances from eating lots of sugar, popular for the first time among the rich in 17th century England. (Notice that much of the blame is put on meat instead, which has high purines but doesn't cause metabolic issues).
The “English Hippocrates” and the disease of kings
January 1, 1683
A science paper is published that shows how to diagnose carbotoxicity with muscle cell biopsies, finding that "basement membrane thickening is a very constant finding among overtly diabetic patients, in that approximately 98% of individual diabetic subjects demonstrated this lesion."
Studies of muscle capillary basement membranes in normal subjects, diabetic, and prediabetic patients
September 1, 1968
Dr Jackson publishes research that shows tight control of glucose with more insulin as well as carbohydrates and calories show better growth as well as some prevention in the development of diabetic retinopathy.
The Development of Diabetic Retinopathy: Effects of Duration and Control of Diabetes
September 30, 1956
Jarvis rides with an elderly vegetarian who says "Rabbits eat lots of carrots, and their feces have no odor." but explains the thinking that "during a Bible class at an SDA school, I was taught that people did not defecate in the Garden of Eden but utilized the food they ingested in its entirety."
Why I am not a vegetarian
January 1, 1995
Jarvis: "The idea that vegetarians have superior physical endurance was reinforced in 1974 when a group of male vegetarian runners called "the vegetarian seven" set a 24-hour distance record. This inspired an undergraduate dietetics major to seek me out as a coach for a group of seven female vegetarian long-distance runners."
Why I am not a vegetarian
January 1, 1974
Jarvis explains the Christian hygienic philosophy of Sylvester Graham's Bible oriented Garden of Eden lifestyle but explains why the vegetarian diet doesn't result in longetivity or good sources of nutrients such as B12, even describing a vegetarian RD who asked about getting B12 from vegetables.
Why I am not a vegetarian
January 1, 1932
Jarvis explains why the 7th Day Adventist Church is so focused on vegetarianism. "SDA vegetarianism is rooted in the Bible, according to which for food God gave humans "all plants that bear seed everywhere on earth, and every tree bearing fruit that yields seed" (Genesis 1:29)."
Why I am not a vegetarian
January 1, 1902
William T. Jarvis, Ph.D. is a famous exvegetarian who wrote: "Because of the influence of my Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) environment, I practiced vegetarianism for many years. My wife and I even tried to give up consuming all animal products, but this didn't work."
Why I Am Not A Vegetarian
April 1, 1997
A fat sheep unshorn cost thirty-five cents; shorn, about twenty-five cents. For four days pay a man could get enough meat for himself and family to live on for a week, besides material out of which his wife could make excellent garments for the family. A fat hog cost twice as much as a fat sheep, and a bullock about six times as much.
Studien zur Geschichte der Anatomie im Mittelalter von Robert Ritter Von Toeply. Leipzig, 1898.
January 1, 1898
Cantani divides his patients based on the status of their recovery using the all meat diet "My 73 cases of recovery can be divided, from the point of view of a rigorous recovery statistic, into 8 categories" and described his first category of "Cases cured and remained in good health to this day" to have 30 cases!
Diabetes Mellitus and its dietetic treatment
September 30, 1874
Cantani says that he has "73 cases published above, 52 other cases cured by others than by me, which would make 125 successes obtained in 4 years" and he asked Dr Primavera for his data and ideas on the use of the all meat diet to cure diabetes.
Diabetes Mellitus and its dietetic treatment
January 25, 1874
Incredibly, many of Dr Cantani's diabetic patients were doctors themselves - and they too found that the all meat diet, when done rigorously, worked to cure diabetes. "This case also teaches that there is no need for trauma or moral suffering to reproduce diabetes: the abuse of hydrocarbons is enough." Observations 51-60.
Diabetes mellitus and its dietetic treatment
March 7, 1874
A group of Cantani's patients (14-20) show that Type 2 Diabetes was effectively represented in the entire population, from young adults to the elderly but required them to eat high starch diets with little to no meat in order to be diagnosed. Anyone who did the rigorous all meat diet would improve in health, even people who never ate meat in the past!
Diabetes Mellitus and its dietetic treatment
March 25, 1873
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