Fat Tuesday 2010
In Windsor, Ont., it’s the day your preferences crave, and your arteries dread — Fat Tuesday — better known within the border city as Paczki Day.
And it’s really a growing tradition, with tens of thousands of the 500-calorie treats for sale for Mardi Gras.
The paczki, pronounced poonsh-key, is made for many, Polish pastry perfected.
The October 2009 Issue Of Ophthalmology (The Highlights)
Highlights of October’s Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, include good news on preserving vision in people with type 1 diabetes, a warning from the Cardiovascular Health Study for macular degeneration patients, and a report on how vision impacts well-being across the lifespan.
Today’s Type 1 Diabetes Patients Enjoy Better Vision than Those in Decades Past
People diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) in recent years are less likely to develop diabetes-related vision loss than those diagnosed in earlier years, says a new study funded by the National Eye Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health. Forecasts of visual impairment prevalence in T1D patients may need to be amended, the researchers suggest, since current predictions assume that the earlier incidence rates will continue. Ronald Klein, MD, MPH, and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences assessed visual acuity over 25 years in 955 people diagnosed with T1D in one of four time periods, with the earliest defined as “before 1960″ and the latest as “1975 through 1979.”
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