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Almost every day, it seems, we see a "news" article in which one food is named as having great benefit for people with diabetes, or those at risk. For example, blueberries, milk, lean beef, and now pork.
When you look closely, you always find that the "research...
Miracle Foods for Diabetes Deserve Skepticism
7/14/09 4:58pm
GREAT!!!! As usual Gretchen!
7/14/09 7:39pm
Quite a bit at the frequent barbeques, feasts, festivals and fiestas. Anytime there is a BIG group 'feed' there's a roast pig or six and a roast cow or 2. But chicken, fish, seafood and (ugh!) SPAM are most common on a daily basis. It's all in cost. And alas typical diabetes control is to have the doc up your meds.
7/20/09 4:04am
Nice for someone to interject a note of levity into this potentially grim topic. Unfortunately there are probably people out there who can't stand anyone making light of anything, and will proclaim the danger of joking about something so serious. Some people just never figured out 
how to have fun.
Incidentally, I'm a type 2.
7/24/09 8:02pm
You should review actual science articles rather than opinion pieces. I have included an example on how insulin is beneficial to bones
http://ajpendo.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/289/5/E735
Further I advise everyone to think of insulin as diabetes intelligence 2009 nkirk1
This link below talks about insulin and the brain
http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/125/11/2768
Study those science articles, avoid opinions and articles seeking to promote drugs simply for profit.
8/ 5/09 9:35pm
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unfortunately, this article only looks at the benefits of eating australian pork, who are quite skinny pigs as compared to their american counterparts- the globalized pork industry here has created the super pig, via confined feeding of condensed corn product, steroids, and antibiotic use- so there is an obesity epidemic in pigs here, whereas the australian pig receives better healthcare via socialized medicine- no surprise, then, that eating a healthier pig has healthier results- in fact overall, eating wild boar would have the healthiest glycemic profile, but as you point out, nobody will sponsor that study
Frank, I think you missed the main point of the satire, which is that the pork probably had very little to do with the results of the study. They said they used, "a high protein, lower carbohydrate diet that includes regular pork intake in conjunction with resistance exercise."
The diet also undoubtedly included regular chicken, fish, cheese, eggs, and beef intake, but the headline said, "Eat More Pork."
They didn't compare high-pork vs low-pork diets. They just put overweight people on a lower-carb diet and gave them exercise and found that they lost weight. Because there's no reference, it's difficult to check details.
The story about "lean pork" is also illustrated with slides of pork with oodles of fat.