“The analysis involved participants with a mean age of 56 years and mean BMI of 30 kg/m2.”
Who paid for this one? The scientists (?) took a group of obese people, starts at over 25 BMI and confirmed at 29 BMI, took them with a moderate age of 52, outside of prime body capacity for either sex and when the body is well on it’s way to cutting exercise, and detemined that those they “picked” were a prime suspect for diabetes.
According to the United Sttes Preventative Task Force type 2 diabetes can develop at any age, but it’s more common in people over 40. It’s caused by insulin resistance and is more common in people who are obese.
I guess failure was no option as they set up the test subjects to go right where they wanted it to go. Then produced the results they set up to be determined and adding an additional factor that wasn’t one. Must have been a grant. That’s like putting all the bulls over 2000 pounds into a corral and saying they own nothing but ton weight bulls.
wy69
I have been a night owl for many years. In 2022 3 loved ones were dealing with cancer and with my nervous nibbling I was at BMI 27.5, and my blood vitamin D dropped from optimal to insufficient. I then got very sick, but started strictly following a low carb diet and a year later was 30 lbs lighter with a BMI of 23. I was 85 by that time, and I believe this was a very poorly designed study. I also suspect many night owls may spend little time in the sun at the time when rays are strongest.
The only reason my blood vitamin D tested optimal in Dec. 2021 was because I discovered Vitamin D3 supplementation might be desirable to improve immune protection against Covid in late spring 2020. I started taking 2000 IU of Vitamin D3 in summer, increasing to 5,000 IU in winter. Current weight is 130 lb. Unfortunately I only saw ConservativeMind’s article pointing out that people with a BMI of 25 or more would have their vitamin D more likely to deposit in their fat than circulate in their blood where it helps immunity. A week later in Jan. 2023, my partner and I were exposed to a sick child and we were both sick for 3 1/2 months.