Herbology
Widely consumed as early as 3000 BC, spice made from tree bark postulated to lower blood sugar and improve insulin sensitivity.
What is Cinnamon?
Meta-analysis of 10 studies found that consuming cinnamon produced a statistically significant decrease in glucose, total cholesterol, LDL and triglycerides. It also increased HDL. Cinnabon anyone :)
Based on eating habits and food typical of southern Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece
What is the Mediterranean diet?
Healthy fats like avocados, olive oil, nuts, and fish at least 2x a week, plenty of beans, fruit, leafy greens, and whole grains, and even a daily glass of red wine. Cheese in moderation, but limit red meat to 1-2x a week. Formulated in early 1960s. Reduction in all-cause mortality in observational studies.
Sport invented in 1891 by Canadian sports coach James Naismith
What is basketball?
Taking a soccer ball and a peach basket into the gym at the Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA, basketball was born. Over the next decade, he worked to refine the game and its rules, and by 1936, it was an official Olympic sport.
George Thorogood and the Destroyers' 1982 anthem to Osteoporosis. B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b...
"What is Bad to the Bone"?
Steel Magnolia's Shelby Eatonton. The Godfather's Michael Corleone.
What is diabetes?
Michael Corleone is frequently seen drinking water in Godfather I and II, before underlying diabetes is revealed in GF III. Shelby's battle with Type 1 DM is on full display when she suffers severe hypoglycemia in the famed hair salon.
Ancient Ayurvedic herb posited to promote relaxation and increase thyroid hormone levels in primary hypothyroidism.
What is Ashwagandha?
Literature has hinted at a link between Ashwagandha use and increase in thyroid hormones, including a few case reports linking it to hyperthyroidism. Available data remains contradictory.
South Beach diet inventor's specialty
What is cardiologist?
Created in mid-1990s by Dr. Arthur Agatson, a Florida-based cardiologist, concerned with the high saturated fat permitted on the Atkins diet. He created South Beach diet, rich in low glycemic index carbs, lean proteins and unsaturated fats.
Number of daylight hours in Yellowknife in December. Take your Vitamin D.
What is 5 hours?
Daylight hours range from 5 hours in December to 20 hours in June. Yellowknife boasts Canada's sunniest summers.
1969 hit by "The Archies", a homage to Diabetes mellitus. What even is a Candy Girl?
What is "Sugar, Sugar"?
124 actors appearing alongside Dorothy. Follow the Yellow Brick Road.
What is GH deficiency?
The "Munchkins" were paid US$50 per week. Meanwhile, Toto and her trainer earned US$125 per week. Wow. The Munchkin cast never even saw their names in the credits.
Flowering spike-like perennial plant, a member of the buttercup family, touted for treatment of menopause symptoms. Synonyms: Snakeroot, bugbane
What is black cohosh?
Both traditional Chinese medicine and North American Indigenous peoples have long used black cohosh to reduce pain associated with arthritis, menstruation, childbirth and menopause symptoms.
Ketogenic diet coined in 1921 for treatment of what condition
What is epilepsy?
Mayo Clinic's Dr. Russell Wilder proposed this nutritional treatment for epilepsy to trick the body into believing it was fasting.
Canada's province with highest percentage of current smoking
What is New Brunswick?
In NB, an estimated 15.8% of the population smoked in 2022, followed by Manitoba then Saskatchewan. It was not surprisingly, the lowest in BC at 8.7%. Alberta was 12%, just above the national average of 11%.
Like hyperthyroidism, or a pheochromocytoma, C + C music factory's 1990's homage to perspiration
What is "Gonna Make You Sweat" or Everybody Dance Now?
Poor Tiny Tim. Someone get this boy some sunshine.
What is Rickets disease?
Tiny Tim was thought to have been affected by TB and Rickets. They thought Rickets was a transmittable disease, so they would keep children in the house and bundle them up. Oops.
Root of this plant native to the Mediterranean, Asia and Middle East, and used as flavouring in candy, foods and tobacco. Touted for adrenal fatigue and other adrenal ailments. Too much of a good thing can kill you.
What is Glycyrrhizin? (Licorice root)
Most licorice products sold in North America don't actually contain licorice root. Anise oil, which smells and tastes like licorice, is used in its place.
"Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension"
What is the DASH diet?
DASH emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat or nonfat dairy and limits saturated fat and dietary cholesterol.
Received 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of insulin
Who are Banting and Macleod?
They shared their prize money with Best and Collip. There were longstanding tensions between Banting and Macleod over who deserved credit, but all four men made key contributions.
Simon & Garfunkel's 1970's melancholic lament to Diabetes Insipidus. Sail on silver girl
What is "Bridge over Troubled Water"?
Humpty Dumpty. Man...those legs are skinny.
What is Cushing's syndrome?
He sat on a wall. He had a great fall. They couldn't put Humpty together again.
Seeds, slightly sweet and nutty, with similar aroma to maple syrup, reported to increase total and free testosterone levels, with increased muscle strength and reduced body fat. Tandoori masala anyone?
What is Fenugreek?
Fenugreek leaves and seeds have long been used as a medicinal ingredient in traditional Indian, Iranian, and Chinese traditional medicines. Different types of glycosides extract of fenugreek have shown androgenic and anabolic effect in males.
Emphasizing foods that hunter-gatherer ancestors ate before agriculture development
What is the Paleo diet?
Emphasizes whole foods, lean protein, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds, while discouraging processed foods, sugar, dairy, and whole grains.
Known for its rugged wilderness, picturesque fjords and at least 12 genetic diseases attributed to the founder effect.
What is the Saquenay region, or Saquenay-Lac-Saint-Jean?
Lack of genetic diversity has led to high prevalence of 12 rare disease, including Familial hypercholesterolemia, Vitamin D-dependent Rickets type 1, and cystic fibrosis.
Ava Max's 2020 lament to Addison's disease. I'm all out of .... Tears are running dry.
What is "Salt"?
He who shall not be named. Lord Voldemort would have quite the time with this endocrine surgery. Just where is that nose.
What is transsphenoidal surgery?
First employed in 1907 in Vienna as a much safer approach to pituitary resection.