The sufferer should be put upon a rigid diet of fresh vegetables, nuts, fruits, and salads. If the body has not been trained to accept these foods, the diet might consist of the following:
Bloodless (white) meats
Eggs
Fats—reasonable quantity (Olive-oil, butter, cream)
Fish
Fresh vegetables
Green salads—generous quantity
Nuts
If the patient be overweight, the diet should consist largely of subacid fruits and nuts. If underweight, a liberal quantity of sour milk should be given, especially whole soured milk in which the cream is also present.
Diet in extreme cases of diabetes
In extreme cases the patient should be required to subsist upon Pignolia (the pine) nuts, and green or fresh vegetables uncooked. The writer knows of a gentleman suffering from a very advanced case of diabetes, who, in utter despair, adopted a diet consisting entirely of pine nuts, merely because they appealed to his taste, while nothing else did. A noticeable change for the better was seen in a week, especially in regard to the amount of sugar passed in the urine. He adhered rigidly to this diet for nearly three months. He then added green salads and carrots, and the seventh and eighth months a few fresh cooked vegetables, and was pronounced thoroughly cured before the year had expired. This might have been due partly to the limited bill of fare, but undoubtedly it was largely due to the food elements contained in this wonderful product of the Italian pine.
In cases of Diabetes:
| OMIT | EAT |
| Condiments | All fresh vegetables, cooked— |
| Confections | preferably in casserole dish |
| Irritants | Nuts |
| Pastries | Baked potatoes |
| Red meats | Coarse whole cereals thoroughly |
| Stimulants and narcotics | cooked—small quantity |
| Sweets | Fish |
| White flour products | Milk (sour) |
| Very ripe subacid fruit | |
| White meat of fowl |
Drink an abundance of pure water.