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...first give you pills that can either sensitize your body to insulin's effects or help your body produce more of the hormone. But some of your best allies in this struggle are your muscles. Building them up and using them regularly in such pursuits as walking or dancing draw more glucose out of the bloodstream and increase insulin's efficiency. It also pays to avoid easily digested foods--like chips, nondiet soda and other junk food--which require large amounts of insulin to metabolize. Finally, losing a little weight usually makes insulin's job a lot easier...
...NONINVASIVE Only one device approved by the Food and Drug Administration provides glucose measurements without puncturing the skin. Worn on the wrist, it uses tiny electric currents to gently draw body fluid from the skin up to six times an hour for as long as 13 hours. The needle-phobic still won't be able to avoid finger pricks, however. The "watch" needs to be used in conjunction with conventional blood-sample monitoring. --By Alice Park
...unclear yesterday if Wen’s speech would draw protesters...
...draw a big meaty bass line from Flannery O’Connor to the Drive-By Truckers, who distill a murky Southern legacy of incest, murder and generational family feuds. Decoration Day is less ambitious but ultimately more satisfying than their patchy double-disc breakthrough Southern Rock Opera, as the band better weaves their shotgun triple-guitar formula and continue to deliver their moonshine-soaked tales with equal bouts of irony and reverence. With no less than three capable songwriters at their disposal, the songs occasionally sound better off the lyric sheet than through speakers. But when the band...
Though it is difficult to draw the line between trips that the IOP should fund and ones that it should not, this ambiguity is far outweighed by the educational value of the trips, and the institute should trust its faculty and students to make that decision and rely on the oversight that is already in place...