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The drug metformin is not recommended for people with
kidney disease. For this reason, some people think that metformin causes kidney disease. But new evidence
suggests that metformin might actually protect the kidneys.
For many people with type 2 diabetes, metformin is a very
effective drug. In everyone, the liver is a sort of... Read more
Your Mileage May Vary
We call it YMMV, or "your mileage may vary," meaning that
we're all slightly different, and the diet or treatment that works best for me
might not be the one that works best for you.
Now the scientists are beginning to look into this and
guess what? They're finding that different groups of people are very... Read more
Almost everyone tells us we should get as much exercise as
possible. But the effects of exercise are sometimes controversial.
Exercise alone isn't apt to make you lose much weight. For
example, walking, an excellent form of exercise because it doesn't put a lot of
extra strain on your joints as running does, but burns very few... Read more
Someone on one of my editorial e-mail list provided a link to this YouTube test. It's really pretty clever, and it could refer to our control of our health just as much as to avoiding cyclists or small children walking down a road at night when we're bopping to a CD player or chatting with Auntie Hepsibah on our newest... Read more
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