So two snobby snob observations for this evening. On my way home from taping life coaches tv (go to www.mnn.org and check it out. I was on tonight at 8pm) I saw a “smart” car…one of those electric golf cart like vehicles that is hardly a car. This smart car really was smart because it went to princeton. It had a princeton sticker in the rear window. I wondered if someone was just trying to be cute or really did go to Princeton. Nevertheless, it made me giggle on the way home.
On the train, I was reading in Harvard magazine (I know, snobby snob, I warned you) about Diabetes and all the facts I needed to back up the television appearance I just made. The summary of the article basically goes like this: While there is a genetic component to diabetes, the vast changes in our diets and the rate at which the disease has grown says that there is something far greater than changes in our DNA. Well said, Mr. Harvard Researcher. I’m so glad I went there and that they are finally catching up with things I’ve known all along. But, yay Harvard. They also had wonderful pictures of mice who had low levels of leptin due to genetic mutations. Just like when we eat too much sugar we become insulin resistant, we make insulin, but our cells can’t use it. Too much sugar and too much fat in our bodies can cause us to become leptin resistant, same thing, we produce too much leptin, as opposed to not enough and we grow fatter.
So just some interesting observations…and marvelous photos of really fat mice. http://harvardmagazine.com/web/extras/diabetes-a-looming-epidemic – doesn’t show the mice pictures though, I think those are only available in the magazine probably for another month until the new issue comes out.
