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Diabetologia
Published in: Diabetologia 1/2009

01-01-2009 | Editorial

Diet, delusion and diabetes

Authors: L. Sawyer, E. A. M. Gale

Published in: Diabetologia | Issue 1/2009

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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. […] When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana (1905) [1]
The history of diabetes is marked by recurrence of certain ideas which rise, decline and disappear; only to go through a similar cycle again in an altered form and a new generation.
R. T. Woodyatt (1934) [2]
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Metadata
Title
Diet, delusion and diabetes
Authors
L. Sawyer
E. A. M. Gale
Publication date
01-01-2009
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Diabetologia / Issue 1/2009
Print ISSN: 0012-186X
Electronic ISSN: 1432-0428
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-008-1203-9

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