Hi Gretchen
http://ketosisprone.blogspot.com/2010/06/increased-weight-and-insulin-resistance.html
This baby threw me for a serious loop because obesity and insulin resistance comes off as protective! My best advice to people when confronted with all this confusion is to get a meter and test your blood sugar or blood pressure. This goes a long way towards putting things in perspective.
Mike
Mike, I agree with you that the best way to deal with all this conflicting advice is to test how it affects you.
Weight loss can indicate very low insulin levels. And I'm sure there are variations in diabetes that we haven't discovered yet. So perhaps the people who lost weight were not really ketosis-prone DM but some form of type 1.
Also people with no fat have IR just like people with a lot of fat. So there are many causes of IR.
Without reading the whole article in detail, I can't comment more than that. I'd want to know how they defined metabolic syndrome, how they determined it, etc.
BTW, I assume where it says "h cell" it means "beta cell."
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The info about kids and low fat dairy is not even new. The NYT had an article about this a few years ago about kids eating lower fat dairy but not losing weight or taking in fewer calories. Another study showed, much to the dismay of those conducting the study, that "overweight" kids actually consumed less junk food than "normal" weight kids. Common wisdom may be widely believed, but it's often wrong.
I'm reading a new book - "Overdiagnosed". I think you might enjoy it. Our health is being micromanaged to our detriment. "First do no harm" seems to have been left by the wayside.
Aggie, Thanks. I'm sure you're right about the skim milk study being old. I read it somewhere very recently but couldn't remember where. I think it was hard copy. So it was probably a newspaper or magazine article, and I couldn't locate it. When I searched the Internet, I found only older studies, like 2007.
It's very difficult for people to admit that they're wrong, and it must be even more difficult to admit that you've been telling people to do things that have made their health worse.
But we all have to make decisions on the basis of the best information we have today, which may turn out to be wrong next week.
I think they are probably separate studies that had similar results.
It's awfully difficult to make good decisions on health matters, when there are people with diametrically opposing views insisting that they are right and the other guy is wrong. You're right. All we can do is go on the information we have now and keep an open mind.
There is a scene in the old movie Sleeper where 2 scientists in the future are amazed that people of the past didn't realize that steak and hot fudge were health foods. When the movie was made, that sounded pretty funny, but now, it's not too far from the truth.
Do you mind if I ask if you count carbs, and if so, how many you allow yourself per day?
Thanks!
I no longer count carbs. I occasionally put foods into nutritional software just to make sure I'm not creeping up, as I love veggies like broccoli. I'm *not* aiming at Atkins induction level.