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Diabetics Skip Injections on Purpose, Hidden Fat in Your Body, and a Cheap and Easy Way to Ease a Needle’s Sting

By John Goodman Filed under Interesting Links on January 28, 2010 with 2 comments

57% of diabetics skip injections now and then.

Fat in your body can get you and your heart into trouble even if you don’t look fat and if the scale tells you you’re healthy.

Coughing can blunt the pain of a doctor’s needle.

Doses of antibiotics and other drugs should be based on a patient’s size. Most doctors don’t do this.

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  1. Nancy says:
    January 28, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    I can’t count on the mirror and the scales? What’s the world coming to?

  2. Vicki says:
    January 28, 2010 at 4:23 pm

    I’m with Nancy. How do you know you’re fat?

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