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Archives for December 2013
Fasting and Hypertension
Garfield G. Duncan was a physician who began researching diabetes in the 1920s, and then nutrition in the 1940s. By the 1960s, Duncan was a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he began researching obesity. Duncan routinely fasted his obese patients, noting vital statistics, such as blood pressure, and what percentage regained […]
Carrot Cake
No one really knows where carrot cake came from although some believe that it evolved from the Carrot Pudding of medieval times, during the middle ages sugar and other sweeteners were difficult or expensive to come by in Britain and carrots had long been used as sugar substitutes. While a pudding would have been a […]