Looking for new ways to deal with what to serve yourself or your family is complicated by diabetes. In Carbohydrates: Why We Love Carb Counting (and You Should Too!) and Be Confident! Face Carb Counting Positively, we introduced carbohydrates and how to deal with them. Today we are going to share an infographic from Diabetes Forecast: The Healthy...
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It has taken decades of work for researchers to find ways to activate the immune system to treat cancer (what we now call immuno-oncology or I-O). Much of that work has been poorly funded. Largely, it has been the result of researchers getting experience in other disciplines (like infectious disease) and then transferring that expertise to oncology...
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“People are like peonies, they need a good hard frost to bring out the character.” ~Francis “Doc” Winter “Doc” Winter was a Midwesterner. Born in Iowa in 1931, in the midst of the Great Depression, he grew up on a small farm. He knew about hard frosts. Struggle, pain and suffering are part of life. Joy, love and...
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