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Why we are fat
A couple months ago, I read an article about the fatty liver epidemic in the young. The articlesays that 15% of obese children and adolescents have fatty livers, anda third of children are overweight in the US: a… -
Diet and Diabetes
Crossposted from BNN; The NYTimes reports that the Gila River tribe won a court case, so they will again be allotted a share of water rights so they can irrigate their fields.So what does this have to do with Diab… -
Will Bitter Melon yield a Diabetes cure?
Here in the Philippines, Ampalaya is a common vegetable for ourmeals, but it also has a long use in Chinese herbal medicine fordiabetes. The problem is that nobody knows why it works, or if itworks, but nevertheles… -
Evil manicures and the toenails from hell
As a doc who washed my hands 100 times a day and kept my nails short, I rarely indulged in manicures until I came here to the Philippines. Here, for 50 cents, you can have your nails done, and for a… -
Diabetic pill danger: been there, done that
Ah, the powers that be have decided that the new medicine Rosiglitazone, causes heart attacks, and the papers are blaring a huge number of deaths: 50,000 I think it was. Stop the presses! Stop the medicine! Headlines pl… -
Treating the diabetic foot wound: care is the most important part of treatment
Ah, the headline is "Honey could save Diabetics from amputation". Why, yes. High sugar content kills germs. So does ordinary sugar. That's why in the good old days fruits were made into high sugar jams and jellies. An… -
Women, the brain, and the blahs
In the good old days when Freud was king, we had "psychosomatic" illnesses, saying the illness was "all in your head" i.e. imaginary. Naturally, patients resented the implication they were either making up the illness o…
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- Name: Tio
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Medical news of the week: Fat is good for you
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