In 1904 two English scientists, Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood while experimenting with improving comestibles developed a nutritional additive that appeared to increase the rate of growth in farm animals and would hopefully assist in eliminating world hunger. Initial studies proved so promising they decided to test this substance on newly hatched chickens at their […]

Ray Kroc, one of the founders of McDonald’s, was giving a speech to a large group when he asked what initially appeared to be a strange question. “What is the business of McDonald’s?” Members of the audience nervously laughed, and initially no one answered. Ray again prompted the audience, and one voice finally gave the

Before 100 years ago children with diabetes did not live long. Diabetics cannot provide their cells with carbohydrate nutrition. Due to a combination of insulin deficiency and inhibited surface membrane insulin receptor ability (see God’s Human Biology-Chapter 19 “Message in a Bottle”) these patients cannot adequately transport glucose into cells. The children, with varying degrees

The United States and the Soviet Union conducted a cold war after World War 2 which reached its zenith in the 1980s. At that time the Soviet Union faced a number of strategic difficulties. Lech Walesa was organizing Polish workers in the Eastern Bloc’s first independent trade union, helping to dismantle Soviet dominance in that

Lewis Wetzel was born in 1763 to a frontier family living in the Ohio River basin. Intermittent warfare persisted between the native Americans and the westward expanding settlers, and that ongoing conflict resulted in Lewis losing his father, sister and brother to Indian raids in 1786–testimony to the ferocity of the engagements. The young man

Sarah was 16 and had the misfortune of not only being involved in a motor vehicle accident but also suffered a lacerated left cheek. At the time I was senior medical student and had talked my way into doing a month long rotation with 2 private physicians who were plastic surgeons. Sarah, when initially seen