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Protecting the Guatemalan Beaded Lizard

September 19, 2007 – 9:41 pm

From The Nature Conservancy.
Is it more poisonous than a rattlesnake? Does it cause lightning strikes? And can it make a pregnant woman miscarry if she just looks at it?
These are just some of the many myths that surround the wildly misunderstood Heloderma horridum charlesbogerti — more commonly known as the Guatemalan beaded lizard. Actually, the [...]

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Research Shows Bone Cells Controls the Regulation of Blood Sugar

August 10, 2007 – 8:00 pm

From Physorg.com.
Bones are typically thought of as calcified, inert structures, but researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have now identified a surprising and critically important novel function of the skeleton. They’ve shown for the first time that the skeleton is an endocrine organ that helps control our sugar metabolism and weight and, as such, is [...]

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Pumpkin: A Fairytale End to Insulin Injections?

July 10, 2007 – 10:09 pm

From Physorg.com.
Compounds found in pumpkin could potentially replace or at least drastically reduce the daily insulin injections that so many diabetics currently have to endure. Recent research reveals that pumpkin extract promotes regeneration of damaged pancreatic cells in diabetic rats, boosting levels of insulin-producing beta cells and insulin in the blood, reports Lisa Richards in [...]

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