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Nicky
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 05:55 PM -
one big reason to lose weight
frankenduf
Wednesday, July 01, 2009 at 04:55 PMnevertheless, (abdominal) obesity is a risk factor for developing diabetes- the positive correlation between (abdominal) obesity and diabetes is well established: http://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/11/1/172 so, one is quite rational in assuming that an obese person is more likely to have DM than a skinny person- put it this way- if you lined up random people against a wall and had to bet on who had (type 2) DM, would you flip a coin?- i would bet on the abdominal girths- if you bet long enough, you'll make money
re: one big reason to lose weight
Gretchen Becker
Sunday, July 05, 2009 at 11:36 AMRisk factors are, by definition, factors that statistically increase your risk of getting some disease. My point was that having a risk factor doesn't guarantee that you'll get some disease, and not having that factor doesn't guarantee that you'll never get it.
If you look at populations, then it's clear that people who are overweight are more apt to get diabetes. Some people think that the insulin resistance comes first and causes the overweight. Others think the opposite.
But when you look at an individual, then risk factors aren't as accurate. One person might have a lot of risk factors and never get the diseases, and another would be risk-factor-free and get the diseases.
One problem is that some physicians wouldn't do a BG test in a thin person who exercised because they would have low risk factors.
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more on the paradox of obesity and health...
Aggie
Thursday, July 09, 2009 at 01:57 AMThis blog post fits right in with what you are saying. Sometimes what everyone assumes to be right, is not.
"Does it really matter how your figure measures up?"
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2009/06/figure-flaw-paradox-does-it-really.html
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Wow, I mis-called most of those! But I'm still wincing about the woman who scored 9+ but won't go back to be retested unless the tiredness continues, and the one who was told she was OK with a reading of 3.1!