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...disease is hereditary. Plain overeating does not bring it on unless the glands are frail to begin with. Most people who develop diabetes are overweight, but when the disease begins, they lose weight, develop a voracious appetite, a quenchless thirst. In the advanced stages, the blood is heavily laden with sugar, pus germs flourish, fat metabolism goes awry, and a victim's body is flooded with poisonous waste products...
...Most doctors advise two diabetics not to marry. Pregnancy is hazardous for diabetic women, and their children often develop the disease. But Dr. Reginald Fitz, a colleague of Dr. Joslin, urges potential diabetes victims to lead a normal life, marry whom they please. The disease may not appear till middle life, and once it begins, it can be controlled with insulin...
...when slowdown of the trees' physiological processes prevents carrying away of the sugars (made with the aid of the fading chlorophyll out of air, water and light) from the leaves. These sugars turn into a class of glucosides called anthocyanins, which are bright red and purple pigments. Anthocyanins develop best where 1) soil is acid. 2) nitrates are scarce, 3) light is abundant. Thus the light-bathed tips of maple leaves and the sunny sides of apples are reddest...
...magazine is sponsored by the International Student Service, an impartial organization first set up in 1920 to aid in World War relief work. At the present time it is endeavoring to develop international cooperation among students, to encourage active participation in solving the problems of democracy, and to make faculty-student relations in colleges more cordial...
...Victorian mansions of their native landscape. Like U.S. artists they were good water-colorists. Like U.S. Middle and Far Western artists of a generation ago, the Australians had learned most of their tricks from the 19th-Century French Barbizon landscapists, showed that they had been too busy pioneering to develop a distinct tradition of their own. The Australia they painted looked like Texas-a Texas with blue eucalyptus and mauve acacia trees, sun-bleached to pastel colors...