Today, July 27th, is one of Canada's proudest centennial anniversaries
We remember Frederick Banting and the week he announced to a grateful world that he and his partner Charles Best had discovered a cure for diabetes.
After years of dogged and often disappointing research they succeeded in isolating and producing insulin, the main ingredient in the human body that processes and balances energy derived from sugar.
Up until this time to suffer from type 1 diabetes was an early death sentence. But lo, suddenly as if by a miracle, new hope and health were granted to diabetics around the world. It has been so even to this present day.
Banting lived in the village of Alliston, a mere fifteen miles from where I live in Barrie, Ontario.
Every time I drive through Alliston and pass the Banting Memorial High School I am caused to thank God for a great neighbor and the millions who were given a chance of a new life because of his labors.
If you can pop that extra chocolate in your mouth and not put your blood-sugar out of whack it is probably because of the work of a humble farm boy called Fred Banting.
If you can pop that extra chocolate in your mouth and not put your blood-sugar out of whack it is probably because of the work of a humble farm boy called Fred Banting.
Jubilate.
Ian
