Really?? Do we actually think THE they are worried?
I’m sooooo, frukkin’ cynical, but this smells of the ‘Fat Nazis’...particularly at the New York Slimes. I would LOVE to ask them if they’d be willing to go after ‘Lil’ Kim’ of North Korea. He seems to be doing quite well in the ‘fatty-fatso’ department IMHO. But, I guess, Commie dictators don’t count.....as long as the populace is skinny and starving, amirite?
New study: Weight-loss surgery may cure diabetes
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57404033-10391709/new-study-weight-loss-surgery-may-cure-diabetes
Weight-loss surgery may be best cure for diabetes
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/04/23/health/weight-loss-surgery-may-be-best-cure-for-diabetes
Weight loss surgery helps Somerset man beat diabetes
http://www.heraldnews.com/features/x206662848/Weight-loss-surgery-helps-Somerset-man-beat-diabetes#ixzz1taJ3ADzF
FWIW, I would bet that it will be found to be something in the mom's environment when they were pregnant with these kids...something reset some metabolic switches in these individuals. Metformin is THE foundational drug for adults with T2DM, and it is terrific. Why it would only work in half these kids is really unexpected.
When this is figured out, it will offer several teachable moments. Thanks for posting.
I can’t believe they are still having trouble with this. Cut out the carbs. Done. Cured.
When did high fructose corn syrup come into use? That stuff is in a lot of food that used to be sweetened with cane sugar. Maybe it’s a factor.
Get the kids off the carb loaded foods and get them out walking.
That was only part of it though. We ate pretty much what we wanted. But we also lived in a society where when kids got home from school it was safe to go out and play till supper then back outside till dark. We never held back on eating even junk food & the majority of us were well within weight.
But according to the current unrealistic BMI charts I was also overweight 19 year old skinny as can be when I came out of basic training weighing about 180 pounds.
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Then there is this....
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM)– Some North Texas researchers believe they have found a way to control obesity by manipulating molecules in the heart.
Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have demonstrated, for the first time, that the heart can regulate energy balance.
“We discovered a protein that’s expressed in the heart, it’s a protein called MED 13, and it turns out that this protein regulates metabolism in the whole body,” explained Dr. Eric Olson, chairman of molecular biology at UT Southwestern.
Dr. Olson said researchers fed mice a high-fat diet, then ‘turned on’ the protein and were genuinely surprised.
“Of course we went back and said ‘wait a minute we better check this again’ and have done it many times,” Olson said, “It was really unexpected. We didn’t go into this looking for a way to treat obesity, it just was a serendipitous observation.”
Of the test Dr. Olson said researchers learned, “We can make them resistant to obesity,” but that wasn’t all, “We can also treat many of the other aspects of abnormal metabolism like the struggle to lower cholesterol and improve glucose handling in these animals.”
Researchers said despite their high-fat diet the mice stayed lean as long as the protein was ‘activated’. When the protein was removed the mice become obese.
Olson said they’re now using the protein to develop an obesity drug that might also be used to combat high cholesterol and Type 2 Diabetes. But researchers say that drug is still a long way from even being tested in humans.