[r9etb]

he suffered from bad breath

This part is probably true: he drank a glass of his own urine every day, and was not at all shy about recommending that others do it, too. (Here's a google on Ghandi Urine to show you I'm not making it up....)

[neverdem]

Although it sounds repulsive, urine from a healthy person is sterile. When you hear that someone has diabetes, what they are most likely talking about is diabetes mellitus, in medical lingo. Mellitus comes from Latin meaning sweetened with honey. From Merriam-Webster's electronic dictionary as found at "Refdesk":

Main Entry: diabetes mel·li·tus
Pronunciation: -'me-l&-t&s
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, literally, honey-sweet diabetes

How do you think they came to call it sweet?

[isom35]

that pisses me off!