Word: joslin
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...trick is to consciously manage the intake of sweets. According to experts at the Joslin Diabetes Center, even children with diabetes can eat candy, so long as they make allowances for the extra sugar. For example, if a child packs away a small candy bar, which typically contains about 15 grams of sugar, then she should eat 15 fewer grams of carbohydrate at the next meal--say, half a cup less potatoes. (A simple calorie database, available at calorieking.com can help you find substitute foods...
Osama Hamdy—the director of the Obesity Program at the Joslin Diabetes Center, which is affiliated with the Harvard Medical School—has been working with diabetes for the past 24 years. He said that it has long been known that obesity and diabetes are related, and that they are both becoming greater problems. Over the past few years, he said, “the prevalence of diabetes went up exactly with the prevalence of obesity...
...Alan Joslin, a resident of the Kerry Corner area near Mather House, said the agreement with Harvard benefited the neighborhood overall, but he was concerned about the “harshness” of some of the designs...
...cells behave a lot like immune cells, spewing out inflammatory cytokines, particularly as you gain weight.) Where inflammation fits into this scenario - as either a cause or an effect - remains unclear. But the case for a central role is getting stronger. Dr. Steve Shoelson, a senior investigator at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, has bred a strain of mice whose fat cells are supercharged inflammation factories. The mice become less efficient at using insulin and go on to develop diabetes. "We can reproduce the whole syndrome just by inciting inflammation," Shoelson says...
...final Harvard tally of the game came in the middle of the third period, when Ruggiero flicked the puck at the goal off Niagara co-captain Lindsay Vine’s arm, deflecting it into the net for the score and pushing Ruggiero past Charlotte Joslin ’90 for most goals by a Harvard defenseman...