In article >,
"Polly Esther" > wrote:

> 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

Considering the WHO's threshold for starvation is 1200 calories a day,
the symptoms may stop not long before the patient does.

Miche

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