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On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 18:59:19 -0400, "marengo"
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One study claims risk of diabetes is
| three times higher for people with BMI's between 22 and 25

High than what?

Some ideal BMI apparantly, here is some quoted text.

"The risk of diabetes was four times greater for subjects with BMIs of
22 or more. Even in just the 22 to 25 BMI range, which is supposedly
healthy, the risk of having diabetes was close to three times greater.
"We also calculated that if we could prevent gains in BMI beyond 22,
we could prevent an estimated 46 percent of diabetes cases and 34
percent of impaired glucose tolerance cases, which is just
astounding," Daniel said.
The UNC report is among the first of several studies showing that an
increased risk of diabetes exists in the 22 to 25 BMI range."

Sounds like they are ASSUMING high BMI is the cause and not the effect
of diabetes. This is just one of the ways statistics can be
manipulated towards many untruths. If impaired GT cases and diabetes
cause obesity, then YES a higher BMI *WILL* coorelate with it. That
does not mean a lower BMI will cure diabetes or that being fat gives
someone diabetes. This snippet infers just that. Lower your BMI and
you cure/prevent the diabetes.

If people who end up eventually with diabetes had high BMI, they are
assuming they WEREN'T "diabetic" earlier. I think diabetes is more a
later symptom of a more basic problem. Obesity is linked with
diabetes, I just think the obesity can happen from it long before your
insulin control breaks down enough to be declared dibetic by today's
standards. Considering my personal success with low carb there is no
doubt in my mind that I would eventually have been declared a
diabetic. My body had too dramatic a response to lower carbs. There is
something very important, medically, in low carbing and clearly the
medical establishment is clueless.


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Atkins since Jan 12, 2004
OWL-40 carbs/day (CCLL=50-60)