Quotes of the Day

If you would be unique, you must combine, as much as you can, two or three fields: that's what can make you unique, with very little competition from others. [2013] - Richard N. Bolles

A coupon boosts response between 25 and 100 percent. Asking the reader to send in a letter reduces response but produces highly qualified leads (people with genuine interest in the product). [2005] - Robert W. Bly

What prediabetes, metabolic syndrome, and PCOS have in common is insulin resistance, which even without it having progressed to diabetes is a hazard to your cardiovascular system, and potentially to other organs. Having metabolic syndrome alone without prediabetes raises your risk of diabetes five-fold. Having both prediabetes and metabolic syndrome raises your risk of diabetes even further. Recent scientific evidence has also begun to tie insulin resistance to increased risk of a number of cancers including cancer of the colon, liver, pancreas, and breast. [2013] - Hillary Wright

Whatever your body weight status, knowing your risk of diabetes can help promote its prevention. Many thin people of Asian ancestry are prone due to their genetic markup. Getting your polygenic risk score shouldn't be expensive or difficult. The data can be derived from a gene chip (array) used by companies like 23andMe or AncestryDNA or low-pass genome sequencing. Either method detects the several hundred letter variants among the 3 billion letters of the human genome, and a formula is used to calculate the score, with weighting of specific variants by their importance, and critical attention to the person's ancestry. [2025] - Eric Topol

Your medical expenses must exceed $1,844 or 3% of your net income to be claimed as tax credit. You can claim for any 12 month period, so note the dates when tallying and use a period of time that will give you the highest total. Also, if you are paying any health care premiums these can be added into the total. Like charitable donations it is also possible to combine the medical receipts under one taxpayer. [2008] - Dwayne Daku