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egg question

Question: Chest hair, maybe? <VBG> Budd – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > Well, he’s bald so I can’t tell him it will make his hair shiney! > c Response: > Well, he’s bald so I can’t tell him it will make his hair shiney! > c I’m getting pretty thin on [...]

Trying to find an answer to Dawn Phenomena or liver dumps

Question: >Fish oil prevents insulin resistance induced by high-fat >feeding in rats. Wouldn’t this just be if you eat a LOT of it?  I use Omega 3′s and fish oil to lower cholesterol…. Linda Response: >Here’s the link to the full text article with an abstract >below: >http://ajpendo.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/273/4/E708 >Obesity is associated with both insulin resistance [...]

Magnesium Supplementation Helpful in Type II Diabetes – Diabetes Care

Question: Quentin, Thanks for this link!!!  It’s fantastic! http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR15/wtrank/wt_rank.html Wow, Black beans are good for everything, and they are one of my favorite foods.  Cool.  :-) Linda Response: > http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR15/wtrank/wt_rank.html > Don’t be tempted to hit print unless you want a 28 page list including > pages and pages of food items with hardly any [...]

Diabetes, religion and politics?

Question: Well, I was taught to give thanks to God for all things. Good or bad. Bad things make us stronger by having to deal with them. Mother Theresa once said "God never gives us anything we can’t handle–I just wish he didn’t trust me so much!" I don’t look upon my diabetes as a [...]

fish once a month helps, study shows

Question: This post not CC’d by email >I’ve often wondered how that worked, as it’s often said that half the people >who have heart attacks, don’t have high cholesterol. G’day G’day Jere,  Statistics are tricky things at the best of time.   If only a small percentage of people have high cholesterol and they make [...]

Newbie intro and greetings

Question: > an engineer, he had to have a detailed recipe, but did turn out some > delicious meals. After about 20yrs of this, he is finally getting an > intuitive feel for cooking, and can actually cook some things > without a recipe!  (Or even a clock, occasionally)! Recipe to drive an engineer crazy: [...]

Jake the Snake

Question: TRY THIS ON FOR SIZE! The Tactics Of Mapping The Barren/Brain/Mind/Body/Spirit Convection/Humyn/Planet Condition/Whirled Connection Have Not Changed In Over Forty Thousand Years! PERIOD! rr Response: agreed. so called "primitve" cultures do it better…like, let’s all invoke various animal spirits and dance around the fire…talk about blowing off manic steam energy!…except a manic surfer friend [...]

Hospital Stays

Question: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >I had just had two experiences, in the hospital, I was in for a heart >related problems.  I told the doc, that I would take care of the >diabetes regiem, my way, and using my own meter and insulin, there was >no problem for him, [...]

Terrier mix with epilepsy

Question: My family has just adopted a 3-year old terrier mix with epilepsy. She is currently taking phenobarbitol to control the seizures. What should we expect in terms of life expectancy, other health issues, aggression (especially around children!)? What should we do for her during a seizure? Side effects of the medicine? Thanks! Response: Roy [...]

emergency! My cat has temperature

Question: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Thanks d5, for the tooth info.  You might be right,  I will talk to the vet > tomorrow about possible tooth problem. > The victory I announced last night was short lived.  Unfortunately.   This > morning, Aristo’s temperature ran up to 105.3.  I took [...]