"Polly Esther" > wrote in message
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>I was sort of listening to the news on tv ( the network that lets us
>actually hear some of the testimony in the Anthony trial) while quilting
>and some of the announcement missed my ears. It seems like I heard that
>there was some sort of study about diabetics. They put about a dozen
>people on a 600 calorie a day diet and their symptoms disappeared.
> Did I really hear that? And, in my Moma's expression, "What in the Sam
> Hill" could a 600 calorie a diet be? Maybe a stalk of celery and an
> apple? Polly

Yes, you heard it. That was posted about on the diabetes newsgroup. Nobody
could live on a diet like that for very long. And in fact in the old days
diabetes was treated by a starvation diet that consisted of mainly just fat.