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Ikaria in Greece is sometimes described as the place where people forget to die. Like the other blue zones, the island has more centenarians than anywhere else in the world. According to explorer Dan Buettner, who first set out on a quest in 2000 to…

When Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1921, he refused to put his name on the patent. He felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that saved lives. Co-inventors James Collip and Charles Best later sold the insulin patent to the…

The other night I had drinks with my friend and his girlfriend. She's Scottish and has the laudable goal of wanting to help people in her disenfranchised community. One of her best friends is a diabetic in her twenties who doesn't know what food looks…

I ran into my old boss yesterday, and we got chatting over a coffee. Diabetes came up, and she told me her sister has the type where you don't have to inject insulin, and her doctor had told her it was much better to have…

IX. The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star. Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarins book from 1825 is famous for the aphorism "Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you what you are." He believed that…

When it comes to aging, people aren't afraid of losing their lives. They're afraid of losing their humanity. Most google-savvy diabetics know the statistic that diabetes takes a decade of your life away. For well-controlled diabetes, it is not a must, but the five-year mortality…

What should be a foundation in diabetes treatment is barely known by anyone who hasn't read Richard Bernstein's Diabetes Solution. It's a shame. The law of small numbers states that the lower the carbs, the smaller the insulin doses, so the smaller the errors. By…

I made the mistake of going on Twitter the other day, even though it does little else but make me doubt the future of humanity. We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters. This was no exception. Some diabetic was thrilled after discovering that…

I've been reading Ken Liu's The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, which is overall a wonderful experience. There's a story in it about a girl whose soul sits in an ice cube. She's terrified that it will melt, so every night before going to bed,…