Diabetes, like all other degenerative disease—high blood pressure, Bright’s disease, cancer, arthritis, disseminated sclerosis and the rest—is on the increase throughout the whole of the civilised world. The insulin enthusiasts tell us that their product saves the lives of many thousands of these sufferers annually. On the other hand, as the vital statistics since 1922 show a steady rise in the death rate, somebody is not telling the truth. But here and there we get a glimpse of it.

For example a statement issued in November 1953 from an American hospital for diabetics. Five chemists and three doctors had just completed a prolonged experiment on 4,000 patients. Their conclusion—which by the way, is a medical opinion and not a Nature Cure one—is that not more than one per cent of diabetics require insulin.

It is staggering to think that there is only one per cent of difference between our opinion and that of these drug doctors on the need for insulin.

That finding will be rapidly forgotten in all orthodox circles. It would never do for the public to learn that only by self-effort can the diabetic be cured. Always there must be the miracle drug, injection or operation.

To keep the rate of recovery high, insulin is given to persons who have not the slightest trace of diabetes. Some of the most healthy people, especially strong men who are not ill in any way, excrete sugar in their urine. The only thing wrong with these people is an exceptionally sugary and starchy diet—that, and over-credulity. Their sugar leakage is not a symptom of disease, it is a vital safety-valve. But these people are advertised as "saved by insulin".

I believe that only through self-control and self-effort can there be any hope of cure for the diabetic.