![]() and then had a normal four-course dinner in hall. He ate lunch in an ordinary restaurant, played golf nearly every afternoon. ![]() My diet was strictly controlled, especially on the carbohydrate side: for two years all my food was weighed and no excesses at all were allowed.” In 1931 he won a scholarship to New College, Oxford, and once there decided to use a less orthodox method of treatment. I returned home to be looked after by my parents in accordance with the detailed instructions given to them. ‘In 1986 Jack Eastwood, a retired headmaster, wrote an article in the British Medical Journal remembering that when he developed diabetes at the age of 13 he was “taken to a Harley Street specialist and spent three weeks in a nursing home, during which time my diet and insulin requirements were settled. ![]() ![]() I don’t know whether any of you have read it, but Professor Robert Tattersall ends his Diabetes: The Biography (Oxford, 2009) with an upbeat story that’s worth repeating: ![]()
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