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...health risks. Not only are they packed with calories that tend to get stored as extra kilos, but their high sugar content can also cause blood-glucose levels to spike - a particular concern for diabetics, whose insulin can't even out those peaks efficiently. But the holidays are a minefield we can navigate, doctors and dietitians insist. By enforcing a few simple rules, you and your kids may be able to have your cake and eat it too. The trick is to manage the intake of sweets. According to experts at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston , even children with...
...holidays are a minefield we can navigate, doctors and dietitians insist. By enforcing a few simple rules, you and your kids may be able to have your cake...
...holidays are a minefield we can navigate, doctors and dietitians insist. By enforcing a few simple rules, you and your kids may be able to have your cake...
Peril lurks around every corner. Even in Ramadi, a Sunni town that the U.S. military considers under its control, the Marines are ambushed nearly every day by insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades. Convoys passing through the city must navigate a minefield of roadside bombs. The violence has made it impossible to carry out missions to win the hearts and minds of the locals, most of whom have never warmed to the U.S. presence. The Marines in Ramadi don't use tanks and rarely call in air support; instead, they rely on guile, guts and instinct to hunt down the insurgents...
...deploy them as cheap detectors of land mines, which cripple and kill thousands of people every year in war-ravaged nations like Angola. "We have a long way to go," he acknowledges. "Right now my friends tell me they wouldn't walk behind me and my detector in a minefield." If Thundat's track record is any indication, his friends might be in for a field trip sooner than they think. --By Unmesh Kher/Oak Ridge