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This is from the NYT:
For decades, researchers believed that if people with diabetes lowered their blood sugar to normal levels, they would no longer be at high risk of dying from heart disease. But a major federal study of more than 10,000 middle-aged and older people with Type 2 diabetes has found that lowering blood sugar actually increased their risk of death, researchers reported Wednesday.

The medical community still says that “Lowered blood sugar can protect against kidney disease, blindness and amputations.”
They were wrong on the first part, so how do we know if they are right in this part.

By their own admission and by the results of a test they sponsored, medical experts haven’t got a clue and they’ve evidently been killing people for years.

I’m not a doctor but if your meds make you feel better and keep you from diabetic coma take them, otherwise I think improved circulation, less weight, and avoiding certain foods will work just as well as anything.
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Also from the NYT:
In a victory for fans of one of the city’s most popular tourist destinations, San Francisco voters soundly rejected a ballot proposal on Tuesday to acquire Alcatraz Island and convert it into “a global peace center,” though advocates of the plan say their dream is not dead.

Why do these self-serving idiots always want to save the world by destroying a national, not to mention money making, monument?
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I just received these, last two bits by email.
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Link to Hema site. Click on the link. It’s in Dutch, and it does require flash, but don’t worry about it. Just watch the pictures.
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Go to Google and type in the phrase “find chuck norris.” Then click I’m feeling lucky.

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