----+--------------+----------
Total for meal | 2.5 | .1 | 5.6 | 31
Supper: | | | |
Beet tops 75 gm. | 1.5 | | 2.5 | 16
Onions (boiled) 75 gm. | 1.5 | .3 | 7.5 | 44
Tea or coffee | | | |
+---------+-------+--------------+----------
Total for meal | 3 | .3 | 10 | 60
Total for day | 11.2 | 2.2 | 21.4 | 141
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FAST

~Method of Administering Treatment.~--In many cases the patient is
first put to bed during the starvation treatment, but recently Dr.
Allen has emphasized the value of exercise, claiming that it assists
in utilizing the sugar. In any case, the starvation regime remains the
same. The patient is given only coffee or clear broth with or without
whisky (one ounce every two hours) and the treatment continued from
one to four days, or until the urine becomes sugar free.[141]

It has rarely been found necessary to continue the fast longer than
four days, since in most cases the sugar decreases rapidly upon the
discontinuance of food.

~Loss of Weight.~--The slight loss of weight, which may be noticeable
as the result of starvation, is not undesirable, especially in those
cases where obesity is a prominent feature. In fact care must be
exercised in the follow-up treatment to prevent the taking on of
weight by the diabetic individual, since, according to Allen, it is
often found that even moderately obese patients (180 lb.) continue to
excrete a small amount of sugar so long as they hold this weight, even
upon a low carbohydrate diet, whereas those same patients show no
difficulty in becoming sugar free if the weight is reduced by ten or
fifteen pounds.

SCHEDULE FOR TREATMENT AND METHODS OF DETERMINING FOOD TOLERANCES

A number of schedules have been devised to enable the nurse
successfully to carry out the Allen Treatment. In following out this
treatment and reeducating the organs afterward to tolerate foods which
they have been unable to handle on account of the impairment of the
sugar-making organs, it is necessary to make a series of tests
whereby the diet is gradually increased in its various constituents
until the diabetic patient is abl