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Help cure diabetes, win great Mac software
Developer Jim Whimpey is riding a bike to cure diabetes, and he's asking for your help (and promising a chance at some great Mac software). For every $10 you donate to his upcoming ride in southern Australia, he'll throw your name in a raffle to win one of two big Mac software bundles, both worth almost $190 each and both including Things, MarsEdit, Tweetie, and Wii Transfer. Any one of those apps is worth the donation, not to mention that your money will go to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, one of the biggest organizations around committed to fighting type 1 diabetes.You get a raffle entry for every $10 you donate, so put in $20 and you'll get two entries, and so on. He's asking for all the donations by September 14th, so you've got about two weeks to get over there and put some money in. Great cause and great way to pick up some sweet new apps for your brand new Snow Leopard install to run.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jeff Ramos said 4:11PM on 9-01-2009
I love stuff like this.
My family suffers from diabetes and I'm no where near risk yet, but I'm doing my best to prevent it. Definitely going to throw in some cash into this. It's a great cause.
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Bram & Vera said 9:26PM on 9-01-2009
my father passed away because of diabetes last year :`(
would love to give donation but the page seems not protected with SSL, Firefox give me warning :(
any chance with paypal?
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jere said 11:19AM on 9-02-2009
The cure for Type 2 is simple -> stop eating carbohydrates. Type 1, that's a real research problem, but Type 2 is directly related to the bad advice given to us by our government health authorities who recommend low-fat diets and a ridiculous amount of servings of bread and grains per day.
See this lecture by Gary Taubes (author of Good Calories, Bad Calories): http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=21216
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online backup said 1:24AM on 9-21-2009
It's great to know this.
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