Move over green tea. A cuppa joe — actually several cuppas — are now being touted as another hot beverage with highly beneficial health properties.

Michel Nischan discusses how his son's diabetes diagnosis changed his life and his career as a chef.

Native Americans gave us tobacco. Apparently, we returned the favor with fry bread.

I wasn’t up on the whole fry bread phenomenon till I heard a story on NPR’s All Things Considered a few weeks back. Now a fixture of Native American cuisine, it turns out that the deep fried dough isn’t indigenous to Native Americans at all; it became popular only when the Federal government began to issue commodities such as white flour and lard to native tribes at the turn of the century.

It's soluble in both water and fat — battling free radicals in everything from blood to cholesterol — but ALA really shines when taking on diabetes. The supplement was a hot topic few years ago, but with 14 million (diagonosed) diabetic Americans, its antioxidant abilities deserve to be revisited.

I have been scouring all known earthly networks to bring you the freshest reports on paranormal, extranormal, and outright surreal events. This week:

• A Malaysian man haunted by a hungry ghost who has demanded sex from him every night for the past 16 years seeks help through medium. Read more.

• A woman receiving treatment for diabetes at a state-run hospital in eastern India lost one of her eyes after ants nibbled away at it.