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...diagnosis. The boy's body was flooded with sugar; he had Type 1 diabetes. Then, as now, the disease had no cure, and patients like Sam need to perform for themselves the duties their pancreas cannot - keeping track of how much glucose they consume and relying on an insulin pump to break down the sugars when their levels climb too high. The diagnosis changed not only Sam's life but the lives of his parents and older sister Emma as well. Throughout Sam's childhood, Gail would wake every few hours during the night to check his blood sugar...
...switched. So he injected lower-body fat from mice into their abdomens. “What we found was that moving the fat under the skin and hips...actually improved metabolism,” Kahn said in an interview. Mice with the transplanted fat lost weight, had lower insulin levels, and had better insulin sensitivity. Kahn had found that not all fat is created equal: subcutaneous fat from the lower body, it turns out, is very different from abdominal fat. What the difference is, exactly, has yet to be discovered. That kind of finding would have “enormous...
...disease, the study's authors wanted to explore whether a stricter diet could reduce that risk. The theory is that foods that break down quickly in the gut and flood the blood with glucose - high-glycemic foods - put an exceedingly heavy burden on the body to churn out enough insulin to process the sugar, leading to diabetes. Low-glycemic foods, which take longer to break down and result in a more even tide of glucose in the blood after a meal, should therefore be easier for the body to handle and may stave off the progression of diabetes...
...first thought upon hearing of Sunny von Bulow's death was of how distressed she would be to have become a household name. But some in her family decided to turn a medical tragedy into a legal nightmare. They accused her husband Claus of twice injecting her with insulin in an effort to cause her death and gain her wealth...
...Steven J. Russell says he was attracted to Joslin by Kahn’s reputation as a mentor, and by his work with the recently developed fat-specific insulin receptor knockout mouse, a genetically modified animal whose fat cells are unaffected by insulin. The lean, long-lived mouse holds potential for treating diabetes and aging in general, and it is only one of the many topics studied in Kahn’s interdisciplinary, collaborative...