Odd Lots
- After being in the water for as many as four years, a broken camera turns up on a California beach with the SD card still in it...and still functional, complete with a hundred-odd photos taken before the camera was lost. I marvel first at the durability of these cards in a corrosive medium--and then at how little circuit board there actually is ( Read more... )
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13887909
It is beginning to be clearer, on the morbidly obese path(*) to T2 diabetes, that there is an extended period where the pancreatic islets responsible for insulin production become dormant over extended periods of over-nutrition and hyperglycemia. Eventually, they become permanently non-functional, but this research shows that the holiday period is longer than many had thought.
My ex-neighbour (and recently retired colleague) Keith Frayn is mentioned; ( http://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/principal-investigators/researcher/keith-frayn )
His book : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Metabolic-Regulation-Perspective-Keith-Frayn/dp/063206384X is well worth a read.
(*) There are still those who are lean, fit and healthy who develop T2 - some evidence is emerging that this may be partially due to an autoimmune cause - not MODY (Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young), but something else again. Even in this class, a strict low carbohydrate diet can dramatically reduce the impact of the disease.
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