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How Chimaera Mythology Became Reality
The impossible, three-headed monster of Ancient Greek mythology, the Chimaera, may have started off as a fantasy, but today, the word “chimera” can be used to refer to anything that seems impossible. This includes the real-life,...
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Transforming Diabetes Management: a Low-Carb Path to Stability and Health
Listen to personal experiences of individuals and families who have embraced a low-carbohydrate diet to manage Type 1 diabetes, discovering a variety of rich and satisfying new meals. This video emphasizes the profound positive impact on...
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Dr. Bernstein's Low Carb Diet for Type 1 Diabetes
In this video, families discuss how switching to Dr. Bernstein's low-carbohydrate dietary approach to managing Type 1 diabetes impacted their lives and the health of their children. This diet allowed many of them to control blood sugar...
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The Dangers of a High Carb Diet for Children with Diabetes
This video addresses the American societal model that associates childhood with consuming high-carbohydrate foods like cupcakes, pizza, and pancakes, a diet that poses significant challenges for children with Type 1 diabetes. Parents...
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Dietary Misconceptions in Diabetes Care
This video explores the significant gap in nutrition education among medical professionals, highlighting the focus on new technologies and research over dietary interventions in medical training. It details the pressures and constraints...
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How High Carbohydrate Diets Negatively Impact Type I Diabetics
Families of children with Type 1 diabetes explain the confusion and frustration they faced as they navigated diabetes management. They discuss dietary advice that seems counterintuitive, focusing on high-carbohydrate foods despite the...
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Personal Struggles with Diabetes Management and Resulting Complications
Personal stories from individuals living with Type 1 diabetes. They detail their struggles with managing blood sugar levels, the fear and physical toll of constant fluctuations, and the long-term complications they faced as a result....
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Discovery of Insulin and Debate Surrounding Modern Useage
After years of research, insulin was isolated by a team at the University of Toronto in 1921, leading to a partnership with Eli Lilly and Company for its manufacture as a lifesaving treatment. However, managing diabetes using current...
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Introduction to Juvenile Diabetes and Diagnosis
This video details one family's alarming experience when their daughter Sierra's flu-like symptoms escalated into a severe and life-threatening condition, leading to her diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes after being admitted to the hospital...
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How Eisenhower's Heart Attack Reshaped American Diets
When President Eisenhower had a heart attack in 1955, it impacted the entire American diet. Soon, most people were adopting a low-fat, high-carbohydrate dietary model. This dietary shift, though based on flawed science, laid the...
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Personal Stories of Type 1 Diabetes Diagnosis and Management
Three different families recount their experiences during and after their children were diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Despite following medical advice, managing their children's blood sugar levels proved challenging, leading to severe...
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The Okavango Delta: A Wildlife Haven in the Heart of Africa
Deep at the heart of the great Kalahari lies a lush oasis like no other; a place of astounding beauty home to a great variety of wildlife. The Okavango delta. It is here where we have come to observe the incredible wildlife of Africa...
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British Wildlife: Red Squirrels
Red squirrels inhabit coniferous forests and deciduous woodlands in Scotland, Northumberland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Lake District. The Red Squirrel is the UK’s only native species of squirrel, and was once common across the...
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Popular Words Invented by Authors
Authors often create words just for a one-time usage... but a special few will gain traction and become full-fledged parts of our shared lexicon!
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The EPIC Aesir vs. Vanir War
This epic Norse mythology featurs two different groups of deities who initially battled but ultimately joined forces into a unified Pantheon. An unheardof phenomenon in the worlds of adversarial deities.
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Why Prometheus Risked Everything For Humans
Greek Gods are notorious for petty squabbling, brutal punishments, and meddling in people’s love lives. But in the myth of Prometheus, an immortal makes the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of humankind. A wily Titan who stole fire from...
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Aztec Mythology and the Origins of Humanity
If the word “Nahua” sounds unfamiliar to you, it’s probably because you’re more used to hearing them referred to as the Aztec. The history is complicated, but the name Aztec was popularized by a German explorer in the 1800s to describe...
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Trickster Gods and the Mortals Who Love Them
If you’ve attended a sleepover party in the last 50 years, chances are high that you’ve encountered a prank call - maybe you’ve even made one yourself. But for thousands of years before the invention of the telephone, pranks fell under...
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It’s Never Turtles All the Way Down
Several mythologies from around the world imagined that the world sits on the back of a turtle. Centuries later, we end up with the whimsically iconic phrase “it's turtles all the way down.” Let's explore the origins of the phrase, some...
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The Book of the Dead May Not Be What You Think It Is
We reveal the true purpose of the ancient text, discover more about the ancient Egyptian people and their relationship with death and the afterlife and dispel misconceptions about the use of this piece of ancient history. Join us as we...
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Hawaii's Fiery Lovers to Enemies Myth
Not all marriages are love stories, and some of them are meant to end. The Hawai’ian volcano goddess Pele was briefly and disdainfully married to the half-pig demigod Kamapua’a before their ugly breakup. This story will allow us to...
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Were These Mythical Warriors Real?
Ancient tales of this tribe of warrior women who fought epic battles and established great cities continue to inspire storytellers in modern times. The legend challenges traditional gender roles and inspires narratives of female...
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Music of the Gods
In many mythologies, music is associated with the explosion of life and bursts of creativity. But it’s also used to explore the dark side of human nature: the desire to manipulate our surroundings, or to control others.
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The Many Gods of Yoruba Lore
In recent years we have seen a very welcome uptick in the number of fantasy books inspired by West African folklore. The Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism movements have paved the way for Black authors across the diaspora to build worlds...