Fat makes you fat, and obesity causes diabetes. Everyone knows that, right?
But maybe Everyone is wrong.
Not everyone who is obese gets diabetes. To get type 2 diabetes, you need to have "diabetes genes" that won't let your pancreas increase in mass when you eat more carbohydrate, and usually eatin...
Flawed Link of Obesity to Diabetes Genes? High Fat Diet equals Lower Diagnosis
4/ 7/09 11:27pm
OK, don't do that first. First watch this talk he gave at UC Berkeley:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=21216
The British title of the book is "The Diet Delusion". If you just put "Gary Taubes" in your favorite search engine (or even in one you don't like) you will find lots of other interviews and discussions. This science writer writes beautifully and he pretty much doesn't assume anybody is right until he sees their science in detail.
I want to see what he does with what I think is a major fraud about HIV. I think he doesn't yet agree with me, but I'm confident that in his first year of looking at the science he will change his mind.
He's a writer, he's really good at it, and he is ready to change his mind when the facts require that. That's how he was able to get past the fact that the doctors and the dietitians and even many of the scientists were dead wrong. The full story is really very interesting and when the word gets around, we can start to end the obesity epidemic and even start to end the diabetes epidemic. Yes, we can.
I don't know what it will take to change the minds of the experts, but Taubes sure made a good start at it. His interviews and his book will give you lots of ammunition for the battles of wits that will be needed, apparently for years to come.
Dick Karpinski Nitpicker.pbwiki.com
4/ 7/09 11:53pm
The American title is Good Calories, Bad Calories which we express with quotes as "Good Calories, Bad Calories" when we can't specify italics. But it didn't work in the title.
Maybe somebody will pester Health Central to fix those nitpicking problems, but I have little faith due to long experience in such matters. Therefor, I concentrate on the high value problems like obesity and diabetes. It's not that I have more luck with them, but just that success would matter more. This nitpicker tilts at BIG windmills.
4/18/09 6:30pm
Most of us with diatebes know that fat does not cause it-
but why is it that for us, it is much harder to keep a normal
weight? More so than other people, more of what we eat seems to turn to fat. This problem requires more research because fat around the belly and organs is known to worsen the side effects
and make it harder to control the condition.
JG
to fat.
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Let us not forget the roll of stress. Although I cannot quote research, I firmly believe that the reason I am a Type 2 is due to years and years of unending, high stress.
Yep, I believe you believe that. I believe the role of the stress was to encourage you to eat more carbs as comfort food. And I can't quote any research about you. In fact I have trouble even quoting titles in Subject lines.
Yes, stress is a factor, as are many other things. This particular research concerned only fat and carbohydrate.