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Podcast Episode 61 – Living With Diabetes (1959)


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This weeks episode is a discussion on a short film called "Living With Diabetes". The film was produced in Great Britain, in 1959 and it gives you a greater understanding of what a diabetic's life was like, and still like today in many respects. It is the only video I have watched so far, that puts somewhat a human side to diabetes (rather than just food and numbers).
The film breaks down diabetes in the most simplest of terms. It also serves as a history lesson for what it was like managing diabetes more than a half a century ago. Yet how grateful so many diabetics were at that time that "insulin" was discovered, and diabetes was no longer a death sentence.
After you've finish watching the film, stay tuned, because I have made some additional comments about the film, and some of my deeper thoughts on diabetes and it's management.
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