July the 30th: Insulin Appreciation Day
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On this day in 1921, Frederick Banting and Charles Best injected a test subject, a dog called 410 (giving dogs actual names didn't catch on until the early 1930s), with pancreatic extract, and recorded a major drop in its sugar levels.
Sadly they were too busy to give the poor animal a Mars Bar, as they found they had discovered insulin, the chemical which our bodies use to regulate sugar levels.
Insulin Appreciation Day was apparently invented just this year by Clarence Haynes, a 91 year old diabetes sufferer from Canada.
Sadly it comes 48 hours too late to save the lives of the thousands of diabetics who were killed off by Milk Chocolate Day.
That's your Day for today.
Labels: Charles Best, Conditions and Diseases, Diabetes, Frederick Banting, Health, Insulin, insulin appreciation day, Pancreas
2 Comments:
Thank you! I'm going to do something good for my pancreas right now -- have a salad and some veggie soup!
30 July 2009 23:02
Excellent plan, Setra! I tend to take the opposite approach of giving it a good workout - more chocolate!
31 July 2009 17:33
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