Posted on 01/29/2009 12:37:00 AM PST by neverdem
Before swallowing this theory, I would suggest you read Gary Taubes book, GOOD CALORIES, BAD CALORIES. It is a history of the medical treatment of heart disease, diabetes, and obesity with a full discussion on all the low calorie diet tests. I believe the report is leaving something out of the equation.
Think about it. If a person is put on a semi-starvation diet, wouldn’t the body natural defenses be to put what energy it does have into cognitive abilities so as to help rectify the situation? That may initially slow the progress of certain diseases, but that isn’t a cure since the person is actually slowly starving to death!
>>>Think about it. If a person is put on a semi-starvation diet, wouldn’t the body natural defenses be to put what energy it does have into cognitive abilities so as to help rectify the situation?
That’s where my mind went with the premise of this study. Sharpening the senses to end the famine.
“Think about it. If a person is put on a semi-starvation diet, wouldn’t the body natural defenses be to put what energy it does have into cognitive abilities so as to help rectify the situation? That may initially slow the progress of certain diseases, but that isn’t a cure since the person is actually slowly starving to death!”
This was my first thought. Evolution-schmevolution aside, when a creature gets hungry, its level of cunning goes up as a means to finding more food. There won’t be a cure for many of the extant conditions until there is more money in that cure than can be found in treatment/prolonging that condition.
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Less food = less toxins.
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Winston Churchill, Rush Limbaugh vs Alan Combs, Denis Kucinich. Just saying....
Is this why I always forget that I’ve eaten half a bag of Doritos and hence must complete the task?
If the person is an overweight type 2 diabetic, that's unlikely. Enter Feinman RD, Volek JS into the query box at PubMed. They wrote some very interesting papers. Most of the 10 articles are free.
Actually it is possible to be obese and be starving. It has been proven by clinical trials. Again, read Gary Taubes detailed history of the medical treatment of diabetes in GOOD CALORIES, BAD CALORIES where he details the study.
FYI, Taubes is a writer for SCIENCE and has won several awards for his investigative reports on scientific controversies. He does have degrees in science as well.
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