This weekend I visited with my aunt who has macular degeneration. I was chatting with Frank this afternoon about it and decided to look up macular degeneration prevention (mainly to see what the zinc and selenium status is now, twenty-five or so years after my friend was first researching it). Both the Mayo Clinic and WebMD have the urgent ( Read more... )

If you cut the celery root raw into little pieces and fry them with onions and a tiny amount of carrot and whatever herbs you like with potatoes, you can have a low-glycemic home fries that's really really yummy ( Read more... )

operatic: thanks to personhead lpetrazickis I have got Opera to look better. It wasn't just a matter of "how pretty will this be?" but "can I stand to read my webmail?" It doesn't seem to do Popcap, but maybe that's just as well. Fortunately, the widgets (esp. games) that clever people have made for Opera are only mildly amusing, not addictive.
( TMI for the diabetic thing )

The good news first: the doctor's scale calibrates with mine: liver and kidney functions are good: HDL is good: LDL is good: blood pressure is good.

Bad news: triglyucerides and total lipids are pretty bad. Worse news (and not wholly unexpected, which is why I've been tryingto lower carbohydrates): I've got borderline diabetes measurements. ( Read more... )