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Researcher gets $1M to study thin people
San Jose Mercury News ^
| 01/02/04
| Associated Press
Posted on 01/02/2004 7:06:14 AM PST by Holly_P
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:49:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
I agree with you on Wesley though I hated Kay being friendly with his wife while she was doing her husband. And no, I haven't read Blowfish yet but since you mentioned it I will go looking for it this weekend. I ran out of reading material about three days ago.
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posted on
01/03/2004 8:50:33 AM PST
by
shiva
To: Dr. Scarpetta
I indeed have enjoyed that series. Sorry for coming across as harsh.
Discussions of the curse of obesity hit a major nerve on both a personal and professional level.......
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posted on
01/05/2004 12:07:02 PM PST
by
tracer
To: stylin_geek
Give thanks unto the Lord for whatever health that you do enjoy and that you have not been afflicted with the horrible disease that is obesity -- which, sadly, is oversimplified by most as the result of a mere character flaw....
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posted on
01/05/2004 12:10:50 PM PST
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tracer
To: Capriole
"Your mamma's" obesity may well be the result of both heredity and behavioral environment. The same almost certainly applies to "yours".....
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posted on
01/05/2004 12:13:41 PM PST
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tracer
To: Holly_P
I am not overweight because I exercise regularly and eat right. Do I qualify for a $1M grant from the government?
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posted on
01/05/2004 12:16:05 PM PST
by
wjcsux
(If Gingrich is a Newt, Gephart is a Dick.)
To: theFIRMbss
I love Steely Dan!
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posted on
01/05/2004 12:19:43 PM PST
by
wjcsux
(If Gingrich is a Newt, Gephart is a Dick.)
To: Independentamerican
You don't see very many obese people in Mexico.
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posted on
01/05/2004 12:21:24 PM PST
by
wjcsux
(If Gingrich is a Newt, Gephart is a Dick.)
To: Holly_P; All
We have a real obesity problem here in NM. The main cause is an overdose of vitamin T. Tortillas, Tacos and Tamales.
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posted on
01/05/2004 12:25:23 PM PST
by
wjcsux
(If Gingrich is a Newt, Gephart is a Dick.)
To: tracer
"Your mamma's" obesity may well be the result of both heredity and behavioral environment. The same almost certainly applies to "yours"..... If that is so, perhaps you could tell me why it is that an examination of hundreds of thousands of photos taken from the dawn of photography to the present age show that the Americans of the past--middle-class or upper-class Americans who did not have to do hard physical labor--were not fat? If heredity helped to determine weight, then our ancestors should have been obese as we are today. Perhaps also you could explain why it is that, while modern Americans are obese, their near cousins in Europe or Africa or Asia are not fat, even when there is an abundance of food back in the old country.
Mind, I'm not saying there may not be a biological basis to obesity. Behavior can actually change brain wiring. I'm saying there is no good evidence that obesity is genetically linked. Probably only identical twin studies could begin to establish that.
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posted on
01/05/2004 5:57:43 PM PST
by
Capriole
(Foi vainquera)
To: Capriole
Actually, there is a growing body of literature, including "Obesity Gene Maps" updated during the past 5 years, that provide increasingly solid evidence for a genetic basis for susceptibility to obesity.
One interesting example out of many is an ongoing NIH study of obesity in Pima Indians in Arizona.
The bottom line is that for centuries we no longer are "hunters and gatherers" and, more recently, farmers. Consequently, our human phenotypic makeup has been adversely affected by the industrialization -- with the resultant decrease in physical activity and the increase in the consumption of fatty and hi-carb "processed" foods -- of America and much of the rest of the world.
The picture that I see emerging (I'm in the trenches while moving toward the end of my "day job" career)is that the adiposity that creeps up on increasingly sedentary and junk-food gobbling children and adolescents lead to changes in neuronal circuitry that has a startling degree of commonality with those seen in patients who become addicted to illicit drugs, tobacco, and alcohol.
It is now known that an individual's adipose tissue is not the physiologically inert sheet of blubber that it has been thought to be. And those who condemn obese individuals as gluttons, etc. are not standing on firm ground, both scientifically and morally speaking.
Addictive disorders can be seen to "set in" and become established when individuals are in adolescence. Indeed, susceptibility of adolescents to addictive disorders is a major issue in neurobiology, biological and social psychology and psychiatry today.
I predict and indeed hope and pray that advances in our understanding of the more "traditional" addictive disorders someday soon will be applied to the growing global scourge of obesity..........
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posted on
01/06/2004 11:08:13 AM PST
by
tracer
To: wjcsux
Perhaps, but not necessarily.
In any event, obesity is increasingly rampant among individuals of Hispanic origin now living in America. And so it goes for black Americans as well....
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posted on
01/06/2004 11:11:21 AM PST
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tracer
To: Holly_P
We've already seen a study that concluded that fat people eat more. D'ya suppose this one will conclude that skinny people eat less?
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posted on
01/06/2004 11:14:41 AM PST
by
Spok
To: Holly_P
Idiots. Another study for something we all know the answer to already. Dollars to donuts this is a political kickback.
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posted on
01/06/2004 11:26:20 AM PST
by
Havoc
("Alright; but, that only counts as one..")
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