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Entries for February 26th, 2007

Black soya ‘cuts diabetes risk’

Eating black soya beans could lower fat and cholesterol levels and may help prevent diabetes, a study suggests. Yellow soya is already known to lower cholesterol, but black soya is used in traditional oriental medicine as a treatment for diabetes. The Korean study found rats who got 10% of their energy from black soya gained [...]

Lilly Debuts 1st Insulin Pen with Memory Chip

Eli Lilly and company launched a new tool in the fight to manage diabetes. It is a pen that delivers insulin and it will keep a log of your most recent doses. Twenty-three-year-old financial planner Jonathan Bostrom knows how important keeping track of details is to his professional life and to managing his diabetes. “I [...]