Show Dr Fishbein's Health Talks By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN You are likely to have diabetes if any member of ot your family has had hadt it il t In other words you inherit some defect detect of ol structure perhaps related to o the pancreas or some other glands If It your family therefore has had hac hada haca a history of diabetes you should be particularly on your our guard against various Carious constitutional factors related to o this disease You should have regular examinations of the excretions excretions ions of the bladder at least once every very six months the pres pres- ence nee of ot sugar at the c earliest possible moment and to provide for suitable diet iet and other medical control when sugar ugar is found The occurrence of ot diabetes in twins has las been observed fr frequently by ph phy- phy In practically all aU of ot these cases ases the twins were what is called similar instead of dissimilar twins In a Boston clinic 26 of ot the patients with diabetes were found to have twins 13 wins 13 similar and 13 dissimilar Among nine of ol the 13 sets of similar twins wins both were diabetic whereas only two of the 13 sets of dissimilar twins wins were both diabetic This is of course about what could have been expected since it is known mown that similar twins twin tend to tc dc dc- v lop elop physical disturbances of the same ame type As evidence of ot the extent to which diabetes is inherited the condition has las been fo found nd to occur ten times more of often ten In the brothers and sisters of f diabetic patients than in people generally Moreover it is found that many nany of ot the blood relatives of ot pa pa- with diabetes deve develop op the presence pres pres- ence of sugar in the excretions without without with with- out actually having diabetes S S Investigators are convinced d that there here exists a or 01 likelihOOd hOOd lood for developing diabetes which is s transmitted in Jn human beings accordine according according ac ac- ac- ac cording cordine to the la laws s of ot heredity There are often physical factors involved as aswell aswell aswell well as ashe the he factor of likelihood Th The presence of or overweight the eating of ot vast amounts of ot drate food tood which throws special stress on the organs involved in digestion di die estion and in the handling of ot sugar by the body the existence of nerve strain and stress may throw pressure on weakened organs and tissues which will produce the disease much more certainly when the exists ex ex- ex isis than when it is absent |