Carrots are healthy, peeled or unpeeled
Peeling a carrot does not remove the majority of vitamins, according to the Tufts University Nutrition Letter. The carrot skin contains concentrated…
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Food cravings
Dieters who are serious about losing weight should do one thing first: Clean out the fridge. Writing in the journal Obesity, researchers from Louisiana…
Cinnamon and blood sugar
Researchers are studying the spice cinnamon to see if it helps control blood sugar, as folk treatments suggest. A review of 11 trials of cinnamon…
Cure for type 1 diabetes? New business aims at trials
A new startup company has raised $114 million to develop a treatment for type 1 diabetes. Semma Therapeutics will use the new funding to begin human…
100 years of insulin treatments save countless lives
The disease diabetes has been identified for thousands of years, but only in the last 100 has there been a truly life-saving treatment: Insulin. Insulin…
New Year’s Resolutions: Break out into something new
So, everyone resolves to lose weight and stop procrastinating. Why stick with the obvious? Here are some resolutions that will make 2018 a little more…
January 17 is Kid Inventors Day – Braille: The reading system that changed the world for the blind,
At age 3, Louis Braille, born in France in 1809, was an inquisitive, perhaps precocious, kid who loved to work in his father’s horse tack workshop. One…
Future of Braille remains uncertain in the computerized world
In 2018, smartphones may increasingly become the eyes of the blind. After all, smartphones can read text, take voice commands, create text from voice for…
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Nutcrackers have originsdeep in human history Nuts have been a staple of the human diet for millennia and where there are nuts, so there are also…
The nut that is never sold in a shell
It may never have crossed your mind: In the bags of mixed nuts in the shell, none of the nuts are cashews. In fact, cashews are never sold in the shell –…