health/organic
So a developer blog I read, http://www.hanselman.com is doing a diabetes fund raising walk. There has been much new diabetes based news lately too. I will have to link them later. So donate for diabetes...and for Totems new leg.
A potential new procedure for new diabetics. If this really works it could alleaviate a lot of the hassle Scott mentions in his blog post.
This type of treatment would only be effective in newly diagnosed diabetics, who still have some beta-cell function left to preserve. For patients with more-advanced forms of the disease, scientists are working on cell transplants to...
Cool, linkInsulin-secreting cells have been created from human embryonic stem cells for the first time, raising hopes of a limitless supply of cells that could be transplanted into people with type 1 diabetes.
Emmanuel Baetge and his colleagues at Novocell in San Diego, California, used a cocktail of chemicals to coax the stem cells to form pancreatic cells. The cells produce as much insulin as normal pancreatic islet cells, but unlike adult islet cells, this doesn't appear to be regulated by sugar levels. Baetge is confident they can overcome this problem.
If they succeed, the company has also developed a way to...
I'm currently eating some vegetables. I have some organic celery and non-organic celery. The organic is not as green, kinda yellow actually, not a huge deal. The non-organic is green. The first thing I noticed when cutting them last night was that the organic was very rubbery, not crisp. Now I tried a taste test between them. A bite of one and a bite of the other. The organic one was chewy and fibery and tasted like batteries. So otherwise like crap. The non-organic tasted.. normal I guess. Maybe the pesticides kill all celery flavor and that's what I'm used...
This deivce looks cool. Looks kind of big though. I'm wondering when they are going to be in the same unit though. I thought I read somewhere that they can check glucose without blood, but I'm not sure. Hmm seems to be some things out there like that...http://www.spectrx.com/cgms.asp. My dads is some what smaller. I was amazed when I first saw his. I thought he had permanent tubes or a needle constantly in his stomach. But it is just a rubber hose that is in there, a needle like device shoots it into stomach. Kinda weird.