My friend and I talked about the "old times" and she said one of her friends told her his father used to rub his feet a lot as he said they were painful.

Maybe there was always pain, could be my father had pain too but I never heard about it. I think MAYBE back then, just my guessing, a lot of diabetes went untreated or people were not aware of it. I know my family ate LOTS of sugar and carbs all my early life.

I've also thought that with so many pharma drugs being given to people, these drugs could be causing so many more problems. My parents lived into 90's with all the sugar/carbs in their bodies and anacin/bufferin/excedrin in their medicine cabinets. Considering their lifestyles, they were pretty healthy, no big bad stuff. Arthritis was very evident in my family, women's side anyway. Just thinking about it all.