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amount of glucose stays high because it’s not being received. • Diabetes researcher and author Jeff O’Connell uses the following analogy in his book “Sugar Nation”: “Imagine there are oil tankers loaded with oil (glucose) sailing from port to port. The oil needs to be loaded onto smaller boats (insulin) in order to be taken to shore where it can be used in cars (cells). But the smaller boats (insulin) are unable to dock, so they just bounce off the shore uselessly. No matter how many small boats are sent, the oil still cannot get to shore. Eventually, all the awaiting cars can no longer function.”

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pancreas. The pancreas then can no longer produce insulin. Diabetes usually appears during childhood which is why it was once called juvenile diabetes. Before insulin became available in 1923, children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes seldom lived long.

of sugar and refined grains and the odds for developing cancer, particularly of the esophagus,1. kidney, and pancreas. Doctors theorize it’s not necessarily the sugar promoting the cancer as much as the perpetually high level of insulin in the bloodstream that does the damage.

• Type 2 diabetes is caused by diet and inactivity combined with genetics. Type 2 diabetes usually appears in adulthood, the reason it was once called adult-onset diabetes. Now that incidents of type 2 diabetes are so prevalent in both children and adults, these labels are being dropped.

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The skull and crossbones was merely an interesting piece of American art as far as they knew, perhaps the logo of the company. The red dye washed off easily in plain water, leaving the colorless, odorless, tasteless alkyl-mercury fungicide on the grain.

• In the Kurdish province of Kirkuk in 1972, the local doctor was perplexed. Dozens of people had come to him suffering from strange neurological disorders: numb hands, clumsiness, stumbling, sensory loss, blindness, deafness. • He called for help from other doctors, only to find that hospitals all across the region had been seeing hundreds of similar cases every single day, mostly coming from the northern Kurdish provinces. Most of the victims were farmers.

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“I have a cute miniature pincher -- a rusty. Her name is ‘Sweetie.’ “The problem is that I have disabled children and Sweetie steals food from them and never gets to socialize with other people and pets. There isn’t a lot of time to take her out, and now she has bitten a couple of people who have come into our courtyard and house. “One of the people she bit is disabled herself. Lucky for me, she is a neighbor (not to mention her dog bit me once!). “I was wondering whether you might know someone who could take Sweetie, because I can’t afford a lawsuit. I was hoping to find an adult with another dog for her to play with, who hopefully would be able to take her out to socialize more.”

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My Christmas Wish List Dear Santa: I wrote you a similar letter last year. But I must have been a bad boy because you didn’t grant me any of my wishes. So I’m going to try again. I think I’ve been mostly a good boy this time around. Oh sure, a few of my readers got upset with me when I said something they didn’t like. But I live by this maxim: I can please some of my readers all of the time, and all of my readers some of the time, but I can’t please all of my readers all of the time. However, I can keep all of my readers informed about the ins of outs of Social Security. And I think I did that this past year, so I should be pretty high up on your list of good little boys and girls. And that’s why I am sending you this lastminute wish list of what I’d like to see changed about Social Security. I’m not necessarily talking about major reforms to the program. Instead, I’m talking about changing people’s misperceptions about Social Security to give them a better understanding of how the program works. Here’s an example. Could you please get people to stop confusing Social Security with the Supplemental Security Income program? I’d guess that about half the emails I get from readers say something like this: “My wife and I are getting SSI...” or “I have a question about my SSI benefits.” But what they really mean is that they are getting, or have a question about, Social Security benefits. I suppose most of these folks think that SSI stands for Social Security income. It does not. SSI is short for Supplemental Security Income. And SSI is a federal welfare program managed by the Social Security Administration. But it is NOT a Social Security benefit and the money used to make SSI payments comes out of the general government coffers, not the Social Security trust funds. And it’s not just a matter of semantics. I’ve heard from more than a few readers who said they went to their local Social Security office and said they wanted to “apply for SSI” (when they meant to say Social Security) and they were sent to the side of the office that deals with welfare benefits and it took a while to work out the confusion. Here is another wish. Please help women understand that they do not necessarily qualify for half of their husband’s (or ex-husband’s) Social Security. I probably get a dozen letters per week from women complaining that they are not getting what they think they are due. A woman qualifies for up to half of her spouse’s Social Security only if she waits until age 66 to claim such benefits. If she takes benefits before age 66, the amount is reduced -- down to about 30 percent at age 62. (Information for widows is coming up in the fourth wish.) This is wish number three. Please tell people that they can NOT file for reduced benefits on one Social Security record and then later switch to higher benefits on another account. For example, millions of seniors think they can take benefits on a spouse’s record at age 62, and then at age 66 or 70, switch to higher benefits on their own work record. They can’t do that. The law says if you file for any Social Security benefits before age 66, you must file

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for any and all benefits you are due at the same final one is asking for the moon. Please get Congress to start talking about some serious longtime. The flip side to that coin is the fact that peo- range reform to Social Security next year. That’s ple who wait until age 66 to apply for benefits, and going to be tough for two reasons. 1) No member who reach that magic age before January 2020, can of Congress likes messing around with grandma’s file for spousal benefits at full retirement age and Social Security check. And 2) each political party then at 70, switch to 132 percent of their own ben- must be willing to compromise. Republicans norefit. (That so-called maximizing strategy is being mally would never vote for any Social Security phased out. That’s why there is the January 2020 reform package that includes a tax increase. And Democrats normally would never vote for a plan deadline.) As I mentioned above, my fourth wish has that includes cuts in benefits. But here is the deal: to do with widows. You can tell them to ignore what Social Security can be made financially secure for I just wrote about the inability to change benefits. generations with some relatively modest changes And that’s because widows have always had the that include both. For example, if the Social Secuoption of playing the benefit switching game. For rity payroll tax was raised by one half of 1 percent example, assuming she is not working, a woman (the rate hasn’t changed in 30 years) and if Social cut5 by one could file for reduced widow’s benefits at 60 and Security cost-of-living increases MON.,were NOV. then at age 66, switch to full benefits on her own half of 1 percent (basic benefits haven’t been cut in review Double check: would Phone be Number(s)  Spelling 80 years), the program solvent until the  per- carefully. get 132 work record. Or wait until age 70 andPlease year 2100.representative immediately with changes or co cent of her full retirement benefit. Contact your Tidbits Thanks for listening, Santa. My fifth wish is asking a lot. Please help Office: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 76 people understand that Social Security and Medi- Your good little boy, care are two entirely separate government pro- Tommy Margenau * * * grams with their own sets of rules and regulations. Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pr If you have a Social Security question, Tom I know they are inextricably linked because most Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.marup end people getting Social Security eventually Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corr genau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Marinsuron Medicare -- and their Part B medical Office: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760genau and to read past columns and see features from ance premiums come out of their Social Security California Note Company c/o Denny Sands checks. And they usually have to go to a Social Se- other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit 1/16 4C 26x disc. website at www.creators.com. thepgCreators Syndicate curity office to apply for Medicare. But once that COPYRIGHT 2018 CREATORS.COM Nov. 11, 2018 Vol. 14 - No. 46 enrollment process is over with, SSA is essentially out of the Medicare picture. And as a former SSA employee, I’m pretty much out of the Medicare picture, too. Still, thousands of people ask me complicated Medicare questions every year. Most of the time, I tell them to talk to a Medicare counselor. They are called SHIPs. That stands for State Health Insurance Program counselor. (If you live in California, they are called HICAP counselors. HICAP review Pro-carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Advocacy is Health Insurance Counseling and Please neargram.) To find the SHIP or HICAP counselor Denny Stanz Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or co est you, go to www.medicare.gov and pull down the Office: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 7 menu for your state under “Find someone to talk to” and then click on SHIP or HICAP. And if that last wish was asking a lot, this Property of

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Compounds can be very effective at killing cancer cells in a laboratory, but that is very different from killing cancer cells in a person at a level that’s achievable without toxicity. That’s why they aren’t on the news media -- they aren’t a cure, and haven’t been proven definitively helpful. If that changes, I will be among the first to spread the news.

The Forever GI Bill, which expands education benefits for veterans and their families, was supposed DEAR DR. ROACH: I wonder why you to take effect Aug. 1, 2018. It didn’t happen. never talk about holistic measures to pre Due to computer problems, hundreds of vent illnesses, such as cancer. I just read an thousands of veterans either didn’t get their money article by an oncologist who said there are or didn’t get the correct amount, leaving many of certain anti-cancer supplements that work, them in hock, with the landlord knocking at the door. including vitamin D, magnolia extract and arBut, said the Department of Veterans Affairs, all the tichoke extract, all of which have been shown missing money would be paid retroactively. Where I believe alternative therapies in laboratory studies to kill a variety of cancer Meanwhile, Congressional staffers heard have the most potential in cancer is in combinacells, including colon, breast and liver canrumors that the VA would not be making those tion with traditional therapies: helping people cers, and leukemia. Artichoke extract also retroactive payments -- period. It wouldn’t be possible feel better through chemotherapy and radiation. contains cynarin, which decreases inflammato look at hundreds of thousands of claims to make Some herbals, like turmeric, have solid data tion. sure veterans got all of their money. It would be too showing benefit in combination with chemotheramuch work for too little benefit. Under Secretary for py in treating some cancers. 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company was taken over by Schnadig Corporation. Your wicker chair was made around 1937 and might be worth $100 to $175. *** This mark is on an antique oak dining pedestal table that was in an old home I bought in the 1980s. The mark appears to have been burned into the wood. The home was built around 1900. It was an estate sale, and there were no heirs. The table is just one of several antiques that were included with the sale. What can you tell me about the mark?

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Recently, I saw a picture of an antique wicker chair in your column. I have one ver y similar and have enclosed a photo of it. It belonged to my aunt, and I remember it being on her front porch. She gave the chair to my wife and me when we were in our early 20s (I am now 75). I have fond memories of sitting in it when I was 5 years old and sometimes even falling asleep in it on warm summer evenings. All four of our children grew up taking turns sitting in it. The cushion has been recovered, and the chair frame is in excellent condition. I The Karpen brothers founded turned the chair their furniture factory in 1880. over and found a metal tag with the words “Karpen -- Guaranteed Constriction -- Furniture -- Chicago -- Michigan City -- New York.” Our wicker chair brings back so many good times with family, and we plan to pass it down to our of our children. I hope you can tell us about its histor y and value.

German immigrants Solomon and Oscar Karpen founded their furniture factory in Chicago, Illinois, in 1880. They had showrooms on Michigan Avenue in Chicago and in Michigan City, Indiana. They added a factory in New York City in 1919 and another one in 1927 in Los Angeles, California. I found a 1937 newspaper advertisement for a similar chair with an accompanying rocker and sofa. At that time, an armchair was priced at $22. Over the years, they produced several different styles of furniture, including Colonial Revival, late Victorian, Art Nouveau, Mission, midcentury modern and wicker furniture. In 1952, the

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Gustav Stickley used the mark you described between 1912 and 1916. Stickley was one of the leaders of the Arts and Crafts/Mission movements that began in the late 1890s. He founded a guild-type workshop in New York in 1898. The mark on your table was burned into the wood. “Als Ik Kan” are the Flemish words for “as I can” and mean “as well as I can.” Stickley’s workshop was forced into bankruptcy in 1916. Your table is circa 1912 and would probably be worth $3,500 to 4,000. * * * Address your questions to Anne McCollam, P. O. Box 247, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Items of a general interest will be answered in this column. Due to the volume of inquiries, she cannot answer individual letters. To find out more about Anne McCollam and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www. creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2018 CREATORS.COM

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