Posted on 06/27/2013 10:23:20 PM PDT by Jyotishi
Any excuse not to lose weight. Great.
Anyone remember Lysenko the “scientist”?
Anyone knows a really fat person who lived into his 80s?
Eat foods that are right for your blood type and it’ll reduce the stroke probability.
And I saw an article on FR about a possible cure for diabetes! We’re in the clear! Time to pig out!
There’s a list of foods that are proven to be good for different blood types?
The headline is misleading, right? The weight loss only applies to people with diabetes.
Sounds to me like they can’t make up their minds if weight loss is good or not.
There’s a book called, “Eat Right 4 Your Type” by Dr. Peter D’Adamo with the list of foods that work well with each blood type. There is a companion book called, “Cook Right 4 Your Type,” also.
Companion website that lists those foods and types.
http://www.dadamo.com/
I’m pretty sensitive to foods and I can verify for my blood type that it is 100% accurate. The others I can’t say yea or nay.
Here they go again, changing all the rules. Any time now they’ll determine that smoking is good for you. They’ve already found that moderate drinking reduces risk of heart disease, unless they’re changing that again too.
I don’t buy it.
My dad’s side of family dad, uncle, Grandmother and even my younger brother had/have type II diabetes, all overweight, all eat lost of the wrong foods, and I know for a fact that losing weight AND KEEPING IT OFF makes big difference.
They get very destructive symptoms when their blood sugar rises which raises their weight.
The problem is they crave eating crap and then yo-yo diet and that is what kills them faster.
Define fat.
Obese, no. But over weight? yes many older people I know in their 70s and 80s got about 10 to 20 extra pounds or even more. I had a tiny grand mom who died of an aneurism at 70 and a pudgy grand mom who lived to be 9O and died of natural causes; she got a bad case of influenza and never recovered.
yo yo dieting screws up your metabolism but it does not hurt your heart like every one used to say.
Do Lifestyle Changes Reduce Serious Outcomes in Diabetes?
Hertzel C. Gerstein, M.D.
The New England Journal of Medicine
June 24, 2013 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1306987
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1306987
My dad was type 2 and yo-yoed because of diabetic symptoms (sores that dont heal and other nasty stuff) and a heart attack took him at 59 just after the diet cycle.
His brother did the same and got his bad stroke after he lost weight, years after a heart attack..
Obviously there is no one simple cause as its all connected.
Gubmint grant money involved?
Might be on many levels. Besides the focus on Diabetes, the study further doesn't seem to address the effect of chronic obesity, only recent weight loss. IOW, do they really mean to imply that a fit person has the same risk factors as a heavy one? Their results could simply mean the damage to their subjects was already done, not that there's no difference in the CV health of different body types.
This reminds me of a Tom Edison quote I once ran across; it went something like: I hate scientists. You ask them a simple question, they fill a blackboard with X's and Y's and give you the wrong answer.
My father in law is 82 and at least 100 pounds overweight. Low cholesterol too and lives on his own. His weight does inhibit his lifestyle though he manages to get to Perkins every day for breakfast. Errgghh!
Also, there’s a guy I know that is about 300 lbs. and smokes a big, fat cigar everyday at my mom’s AL. He sits in the bright sun everyday tanning and is 90.
My very fit, healthy dad that did tri-athalons at 77 died of brain cancer. He was lean, all muscle mass, and ate very healthfully.
I see all kinds of fat elders at my mom’s AL, mostly women. I’d guesstimate they’re in their 80’s.
Generalities don’t always hold true.
It’s my opinion that it is the actual caloric intake that is detrimental, rather than the weight gain per se. A frugal diet allows the body to metabolise in moderation, whereas excessive intake strains the metabolism. Of course, a steady frugal diet leads to a slimmer body, which is a help, but I think it is the reduced metabolism which is the principal benefit.
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