Diabetic Diet Of Bellevue Hospital

Meat

Fat beef, mutton, ham and bacon.

Fish

Fresh fish, salted codfish, canned salmon, sardines, oysters and clams.

Farinaceous

Gluten bread and biscuits.

Vegetables

String beans, spinach, lettuce with olive oil and vinegar, cabbage, cucumbers, onions, tomatoes, cauliflower, asparagus, celery, watercress, radishes, pickles and olives. Cream cheese.

Dessert

Custards, jellies and creams (without sugar), walnuts, Brazil nuts and pecans.

Drinks

Tea or coffee without sugar, water and buttermilk.

1Diet used at Bellevue Hospital, New York.

Diabetic Diet Of Presbyterian Hospital

Buttermilk, kumyss, beef tea, coffee, cocoa, tea, saccharine in lieu of sugar, clams (thin soup), fish, poultry, beef, mutton, bacon, eggs, string beans, cabbage, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach greens, lemons, apples, oranges, strawberries. No milk or sugar.

Diabetic Diet Of The Massachusetts General Hospital

Diet

Meats of all kinds (except liver), fish except lobsters or oysters, poultry, game, eggs, cheese, butter, lettuce, celery, cucumbers, watercress, dandelions, young onions, cabbage, cauliflower, spinach, beet-tops, string beans, artichokes, filberts, mushrooms, almonds, butternuts, walnuts, cocoanut, sour oranges, grape fruits, currants, alkaline waters.

Avoid

Sugar, syrup of all kinds, potatoes, beets, peas, parsnips, carrots, beans, arrowroot, sago, tapioca, oatmeal, barley, sweet fruits, chocolate, cider, malt liquors, champagne, sparkling or sweet wines and milk.

Strict Sugar-Free Diet 2 (Diabetic Diet)

Diabetic Diet (Strict - Sugar-free). Contains about 20 gms. of carbohydrates, calories 2800, proteid 110 gms.

Breakfast

Bacon, 100 gms.; eggs, 2; orange, 1; coffee with saccharine and cream. 11 A. M., Cheese: cream or Swiss, 50 gms.

Noon

Beef, veal, lamb or chicken, 100 gms.; lettuce or tomato salad with oil; spinach, onions, cabbage or cauliflower, olives; custard made of eggs and cream with saccharine or ice cream, made the same way. 4 P. M., Soft cooked egg with butter.

Supper

Fish, 100 gms.; cucumber salad with oil; asparagus or beet tops; mushrooms, nuts; give all cream and butter possible. Vary diet within above limits. 60 per cent. centrifugal cream is used, diluted with water.

At start give above diet with addition of 200 gms. bread. After two to four days, decrease bread gradually 100 gms.- 50 gms. to strict diet.

If acidosis increases with strict diet, give large doses of soda. Control in this way, and by changing diet.

If patient has increasing acidosis on strict diet add soda 8oz. a day, try method of starvation one day, vegetable diet (no carbohydrate) one day, oatmeal, 250 grammes one day, alternating. The same plan may be tried if there is failure to get sugar-free urine on strict diet; but first try plan of cutting down protein on strict diet, replacing protein with more cream and butter, as sugar is made from protein. Keep on strict diet one month after using sugar-free; then add bread 25 gms., etc.

1 Diet used at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York.

2 Diet used at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.