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Abandoning daydreams of a life without diabetes
After years of longing for a cure for her type 1 diabetes, Daisy Watson Shaw, partly due to medical advances in managing the condition, has reached a state of acceptance. Her wishes now are for greater understanding.
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Is your job bad for your teeth?
Some surprising occupations pose hidden risks to dental health. Could your ivories be in particular peril?
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
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Dietary sugars and human disease : report of the Panel on Dietary Sugars, Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy.
Great Britain. Panel on Dietary SugarsDate: 1989- Archives and manuscripts
Quantitative Radiopaperchromatographic Studies on the Absorption of Sugars from the Isolated Surviving Rat Small Intestine'.
Date: 1959-1960Reference: PP/EBC/F.73Part of: Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris- Books
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The art of making sugar: Under the heads of I. The Natural History of the Sugar-Cane. II. The Culture of the Sugar-Cane. III. The Mills for pressing the Canes; and Furnaces, Coppers, &c. for boiling the Juice. IV. The Method of making Muscovado V. The Method of preparing clayed Sugars. VI. The Method of making Sugar from Melasses and Scums. Vii. The refining of Sugars. With an appendix containing The Art of fermenting and distilling Melasses, Scums, &c. for rum.
Date: M.DCC.LII. [1752]