Hospital morbidity in the Fiji islands with special reference to the saccharine disease

Type Journal Article - South African Medical Journal
Title Hospital morbidity in the Fiji islands with special reference to the saccharine disease
Author(s)
Volume 49
Issue 36
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 1975
Page numbers 1481-1485
URL http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.469.787&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Abstract
The concept of the excessive consumption of carbohydrates as a cause of man)" diseases of civilisation has previously been proposed under the name of the 'saccharine disease'. A review of the hospital morbidity figures for these diseases in a divisional hospital in the Fiji Islands is presented. The hospital serves a population comprised of Indians and Fijians, suggesting comparison with the province of Natal, South Africa. Indians have a higher incidence of diabetes mellitus, myocardial infarction, duodenal ulcer, acute appendicitis, gallstones, renal stones and eclampsia. Their diets differ mainly in the higher consumption of refined fibre-depleted carbohydrates, and it is suggested that the association is compatible with the concept of the 'saccharine disease'

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