January 2022

Support Small Business

Small business owners faced the challenges of the past couple of years head-on. Nearly all re-evaluated their operations to accommodate new ways of doing business amid changing safety standards and local protocols, and many plan to make these changes permanent.

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A Partial Truth

The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis tells of a senior demon, Screwtape, instructing his nephew, Wormwood, on how to trick the innocent into evil. An outright lie, he cautions, will not work. Even a child will sense that deception. The most effective way to lead good people astray is to tell them a partial truth, trusting that they will mistake it as the whole truth.

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Cinnamon supplement appears to effect glucose reading

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have had slightly elevated glucose levels (104-109) for several years. I found a dietary supplement of cinnamon, vitamin D and chromium. I took the directed amount for a period of time and had a glucose test of 61. I don’t know if it was a fluke or not. A recent A1C test came in at 5.9%. I backed off that dosage and now take only half three or four times a week. My glucose has gone back up.

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