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Lots of people--even some doctors--think of diabetes as just a "sugar disease," a failure of the body to manage the levels of glucose in the blood. But as a growing number of studies have shown, folks with diabetes have to do a lot more to stay healthy than control their blood sugar. They need to take extra care to make sure that their blood pressure and cholesterol levels stay well within the normal range. To that end, the American College of Physicians (ACP) issued new guidelines last week that will help ensure that doctors treating diabetics take...
Diabetics still have to keep an eye on their glucose levels, and nowadays that means more than just the traditional glucose test that measures blood-sugar levels. The new gold standard is the A1C test, which measures levels of a substance in the blood called hemoglobin A1C. The A1C test tells you how well you've been controlling your glucose levels for the past three months. The FDA has approved several A1C monitors for home use; the ideal A1C number for diabetics is less than...
...origin of most of this artwork is unknown to Dudley’s current residents, who can only recall the art that they added themselves: a few sugar-cereal boxes and newly painted walls. Rather than adding new work, they take pride in discovering interesting details in the art that already surrounds them already on the walls—such as a photograph of some former residents recreating Raphael’s “School of Athens” or the paper clock adjacent to an actual one, mounted upside-down...
COWBOY BEBOP. This anime entertainment from Japan has marked time alongside The Powerpuff Girls on the Cartoon Network, but otherwise the two series don’t have much in common. Cowboy Bebop’s celluloid incarnation avoids Powerpuff’s sugar-and-spice conceit in favor of a complex plot involving Martians, killer Macadamia nuts and pharmaceutical corporations. The film borrows copiously from a range of niche genres—action, romance, western and sci-fi, among others. It’s a shame that it isn’t a musical, too (“Bebop?...
...prowess at the plate extends well beyond a fruity sugar rush...